The Wehrmacht : history, myth, reality

Author(s)

• Wette, Wolfram
• Schneider, Deborah Lucas

Bibliographic Information

The Wehrmacht : history, myth, reality

Wolfram Wette ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

Harvard University Press, 2006

Other Title

Wehrmacht

Uniform Title

Wehrmacht

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-359) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is a profound re-examination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS troops, and not an accomplice to the massacres of civilians. Wolfram Wette, a pre-eminent German military historian, explodes the myth of a "clean" Wehrmacht with devastating clarity.

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Details

• NCID: BA82936503
• ISBN:
  • 0674022130
• LCCN: 2005052604
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 372 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D757
  • DC22 : 940.54/1343
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
  • LCSH : Nationalism -- Germany -- History
  • LCSH : Germany. Heer -- Officers -- History