Jeff Rutherford

Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contradictory behaviour of the German Army in the east resulted from its adherence to the concept of military necessity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9781107055711
• ISBN-10: 1107055717
• Artikelnr.: 41248390

Autorenporträt

Jeff Rutherford is Assistant Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the German infantry's war; 1. The Wehrmacht and German
society; 2. Preparations for war; 3. 'Attack with a ruthless offensive
spirit and ... a firestorm of destruction': the opening phase of Operation
Barbarossa; 4: 'Will the continuation of this attack be worth it?' The
drive on Leningrad; 5: 'It is only a question of where, not if, civilians
will starve': the 121st Infantry Division and the occupation of Pavlovsk;
6. The failure of Operation Barbarossa: the fusion of ideology and military
culture; 7. The Soviet winter offensive 1942: Demiansk and the Volkhov
River; 8. 'The population ... shouted out to the interpreter that one would
rather be shot instead of being left to starve': the evolution of military
necessity; 9. 'From one mess to another': war of attrition in Northwest
Russia; 10: 'We need to fight to the end, so oder so': combat and the
reconstruction of Army Group North; 11. A more rational occupation? The
contradictions of military necessity; 12. 'As miserable representatives of
the miserable twentieth century, we burned all of the villages': the
scorched earth retreat to the Panther Line; Conclusion. The primacy of
military necessity.