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" Hitler's soldiers : "
Ben H. Shepherd.
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BL
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875504
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Shepherd, Ben, (Ben H.)
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Hitler's soldiers : : the German army in the Third Reich /\ Ben H. Shepherd.
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| Publication Statement
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New Haven :: Yale University Press,, 2017.
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, ©2016.
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xxiii, 639 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, maps, portraits ;; 22 cm
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0300228805
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: 9780300228809
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The Army in the New Reich, 1933-36 -- Road to War, 1936-39 -- Poland, 1939-40 -- "Sitzkrieg," 1939-40 -- Greatest Victory, 1940 -- Occupying the West, 1940-41 -- Planning Operation Barbarossa, 1940-41 -- Barbarossa Unleashed, 1941 -- Barbarossa Undone, 1941 -- Resistance and Reaction, 1941 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe -- Winter Crisis, 1941-42 -- Desert War, 1941-42 -- Southern Russia and Stalingrad, 1942-43 -- Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : The Soviet Union -- Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe -- Initiative Lost, 1943 -- Takeover in Southern Europe, 1943-44 -- Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Ostheer Retreats -- Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Frontsoldat Endures -- Italy, 1943-44 -- Fortress Europe Breached, 1943-44 -- Greatest Defeat, 1944 -- Army "Recovers," 1944-45 -- Army Self-Destructs, 1945.
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A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe for decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people's army, drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad, Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more complicit than others.
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Germany.-- History-- World War, 1939-1945.
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Germany.-- Military life-- History-- 20th century.
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Germany.
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Command of troops-- History-- 20th century.
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Soldiers-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.
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War crimes-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Atrocities.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Occupied territories.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Germany.
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Atrocities.
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Command of troops.
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Military campaigns.
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Military occupation.
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Soldiers.
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War crimes.
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Germany.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.54/1343
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D757.1.S54 2017
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