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The virtuous Wehrmacht : crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harrisville, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: toward a moral history of the Wehrmacht in the war of extermination
  • Honorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht
  • Rationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters
  • The "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa
  • The "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act
  • Death and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices
  • Conclusion: a myth is born.