Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941–1944Cambridge University Press, 10.07.2014 By 1944, the overwhelming majority of the German Army had participated in the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and historians continue to debate the motivations behind the violence unleashed in the east. Jeff Rutherford offers an important new contribution to this debate through a study of combat and the occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. He shows that while Nazi racial ideology provided a legitimizing context in which violence was not only accepted but encouraged, it was the Wehrmacht's adherence to a doctrine of military necessity which is critical in explaining why German soldiers fought as they did. This meant that the German Army would do whatever was necessary to emerge victorious on the battlefield. Periods of brutality were intermixed with conciliation as the army's view and treatment of the civilian population evolved based on its appreciation of the larger context of war in the east. |
Inhalt
The Wehrmacht and German society | 34 |
Preparations for war | 56 |
Attack with a ruthless offensive spirit | 84 |
Will the continuation of this attack be worth it? | 115 |
the fusion | 197 |
Demiansk and | 217 |
The population shouted out to the interpreter that | 240 |
war of attrition | 280 |
combat | 305 |
A more rational occupation? The contradictions | 330 |
As miserable representatives of the miserable | 357 |
Conclusion | 374 |
Bibliography | 389 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
126 Infanterie Division Abteilung anti-partisan Armeekorps Army Group Center Army Group North Army’s BA-MA Msg BA-MA RH battle Berlin Betr campaign casualties civilian population combat Corps Demiansk pocket Deutsche division commander division’s East Prussians Eastern Front Economic Staff East Eighteenth Army Einsatzgruppen evacuation fighting forced Generalkommando German Army German soldiers German troops Germany’s Glantz Halder Hitler Hitlers Heerführer Hürter Ibid ID KTB ID’s ideological II Corps increasingly Infanterie-Regiment Infantry Regiment July Kriegstagebuch KTB OKW Küchler labor Leeb Leningrad manpower Meldung military necessity Müller Nazi northwest Russia occupation policy offensive Operation Barbarossa Panther Line Panzer Pavlovsk political radical rear area Red Army region Reich replacements retreat Rhinelanders Russian Sammlung Sterz situation Sixteenth Army Soviet civilians Soviet Union Sowjetunion starvation Sterz supply Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Tagesmeldung Tätigkeitsbericht der Abt three divisions units victory villages Volkhov Volkhov river Wehrmacht winter crisis XXVIII XXVIII Corps Zeit Zustandsbericht