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 -- …