The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare
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Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the social, educational and political background of the junior officers…
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1 author picked The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I include this remarkable book because Bartov does for German criminality what Glantz does for operations: corrects decades of misconceptions. He was at the forefront of the post-Cold War movement to undo the “clean Wehrmacht” vs. “dirty Nazis/SS” bias that dominated the first 40 years of post-WWII history.
He makes clear that the German military was political and politicized and that Nazi ideology went deep into the ranks and was a key factor in keeping Germans, as a nation and as a platoon or regiment, fighting against hopeless odds.
From Robert's list on WWII theater: the Nazi-Soviet War.
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