In this text the author challenges the view that the German Army of the Second World War was an apolitical, professional fighting force, having little to do with the Nazi Party. Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union to show how the savagery …
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Describes how the Nazi propaganda machine produced conscripts for Hitler's army who were fully convinced of the view of "inferior peoples", and argues that these ideas, rather than the exigencies of war, motivated the atrocities of the SS during World War II.
Describes how the Nazi propaganda machine produced conscripts for Hitler's army who were fully convinced of the view of inferior peoples, and argues that these ideas, rather than the exigencies of war, motivated the atrocities of the SS during World War II.
In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov successfully challenges the prevailing view that the German Army of World War II was an apolitical, professional fighting force, having little to do with the Nazi Party. Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union -- …
Focusing on the titantic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union, Bartov reveals how the German army became deeply political, reshaped in Hitler's image through the savagery of war. In six years of warfare, the vast majority of German men passed through the Wehrmacht and a…