Waffen-Ss - A European History

Zusatztext it will be essential reading to better understand this military and political institution in all its strange and malevolent detail. Informationen zum Autor Jochen Böhler is a Research Associate at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg in Jena, where he teaches courses on the history of early twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. His recent major publications include: War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland (2014, with Jurgen Matthäus and Klaus-Michael Mallmann) SS-Oberscharführer Hermann Baltruschat's Career 1939-1943 (2014, with Jacek Sawicki) and Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's First World War (2014, with Joachim von Puttkamer and W?odzimierz Borodziej). He is also currently preparing a monograph on Embattled Poland 1918-1921 for Oxford University Press.Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of the Centre for War Studies. He is the author of The Bismarck Myth (2005) and a biography of Reinhard Heydrich (2011). His third monograph, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End will be published in late 2016. He has also published ten edited collections, including, most recently, War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (2012, with John Horne) and Empires at War, 1911-1923 (2014, with Erez Manela). Klappentext From 1941, faced with a shortage of men, the Waffen-SS admitted or recruited by force hundreds of thousands of non-Germans to their ranks. This volume, from a team of international contributors, shows who these foreign recruits were, where they came from, what their wartime experiences were, and what happened to them after 1945. Zusammenfassung From 1941, faced with a shortage of men, the Waffen-SS admitted or recruited by force hundreds of thousands of non-Germans to their ranks. This volume, from a team of international contributors, shows who these foreign recruits were, where they came from, what their wartime experiences were, and what happened to them after 1945....

Product details

• Authors: Jochen Gerwarth Bohler
• Assisted by: Jochen Bohler (Editor), Jochen Böhler (Editor), Robert Gerwarth (Editor), Gerwarth Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2016
• EAN: 9780198790556
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879055-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Land forces & warfare, Land forces and warfare, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, HISTORY / Military / Land Forces