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For decades after 1945, it was generally assumed that the German military, professional and morally good, had generally stood in addition to the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd attracts on an abundance of primary resources and recent scholarship or grant to mention a much darker, more complex picture. For the very first time, the German military is analyzed throughout the Second World War, across all battle theaters and occupied parts, and from multiple perspectives: its fight performance, social structure, marriage with the Nazi point out, and participation in war crimes and military profession. This was a genuine people's army, attracted from across German world and reflecting that world as it existed under the Nazis. With no army and its own conquests in foreign countries, Shepherd points out, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of warfare, and civilians in occupied countries. The writer examines how the military was complicit in these crimes and just why some soldiers, units, and higher instructions were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reason why for the army's early on battlefield successes and its own mounting defeats up to 1945, the second option due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the failings of the army's own command.

Category: Germany

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Publisher	Tantor Audio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2018-02
Author	Ben H. Shepherd

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