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Zusatztext "... provides new information and excellent analyses." ???? Holocaust and Genocide Studies Informationen zum Autor Klaus Naumann is a historain and journalist; both are Fellows of the Hamburg Institute for Social Studies. Klappentext Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches, the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was entirely the work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most important contributions by distinguished historians who have thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges from this collection is a depressing one and raises many questions about why "ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and bystanders in an unprecedented program of extermination of "racially inferior" men, women, and children in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Those who have seen these terrible photos of mass executions and other atrocities, currently on show in an exhibition in Germany and soon to be in the United States, will find this volume most enlightening. Zusammenfassung Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches, the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was entirely the work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most important contributions by distinguished historians who have thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges from this collection is a depressing one and raises many questions about why "ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and bystanders in an unprecedented program of extermination of "racially inferior" men, women, and children in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Those who have seen these terrible photos of mass executions and other atrocities, currently on show in an exhibition in Germany and soon to be in the United States, will find this volume most enlightening. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Preface Volker R. Berghahn Introduction Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann Chapter 1. The Concept of the War of Annihilation: Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler Jan Philipp Reemtsma PART I: CRIMES Chapter 2. “Coming Along to Shoot Some Jews?” The Destruction of the Jews in Serbia Walter Manoschek Chapter 3. Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941–42 Hannes Heer Chapter 4. Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Wehrmacht Christian Streit Chapter 5. The Logic of the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht and the Anti-Partisan War Hannes Heer Chapter 6. Men of 20 July and the War in the Soviet Union Christian Gerlach Chapter 7. Military Violence and the National Socialist Consensus: The Wehrmacht in Greece, 1941–44 Mark Mazower Chapter 8. Civitella della Chiana on 29 June 1944: The Reconstruction of a German “Measure” Mi...
