Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps. - Forging a wartime mentality: the impact of World War I. - Bridging two Hells: the 1920s and 1930s. - Invasion and occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941. - Islands in an insurgent sea: the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia. - Settling…
The Nazis called the Soviet Union the "wild east." In their eyes, it was a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This co…