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050 0 0 _aD744
_b.V578 2021
049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aHarrisville, David A.,
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245 1 0 _aThe virtuous Wehrmacht
_bcrafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
_cby David A. Harrisville
300 _a1 online resource
_billustrations, map
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _adata file
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490 1 _aBattlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history
504 _a1 and index
505 0 0 _aIntroduction: toward a moral history of the Wehrmacht in the war of extermination --
_tHonorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht --
_tRationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters --
_tThe "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa --
_tThe "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act --
_tDeath and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices --
_tConclusion: a myth is born
520 0 _a"This book examines how German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during the Second World War rationalized their participation in a criminal campaign, and how the Wehrmacht attempted to assert moral superiority over its Soviet enemies. In the process, it redefines the origins of the myth of the "clean" Wehrmacht"--
_cProvided by publisher
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zGermany.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xAtrocities
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zGermany.
650 0 _aJustification (Ethics)
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCampaigns
_zEastern Front.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCampaigns
_zSoviet Union.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2889428&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell