Virtuous Wehrmacht
Subtitle: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781501760044
Subjects: World history
Description: "This book examines how German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during the Second World War rationalized their participation in a criminal campaign, and how the Wehrmacht attempted to assert moral superiority over its Soviet enemies. In the process, it redefines the origins of the myth of the "clean" Wehrmacht"--