Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare, Ben Shepherd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 342 pp., hardcover 45.00, electronic version available
The Axis occupation of the Balkans during the period 1941–1944 resulted in approximately 1.75 million casualties, or nearly 11 percent of the entire population of the occupied territory. Understanding the motivations and decisions of officers responsible for this exceptionally brutal occupation with...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 532-534 |
| Review of: | Terror in the Balkans (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2012) (Crim, Brian E.)
Terror in the Balkans (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2012) (Crim, Brian E.) |
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| Summary: | The Axis occupation of the Balkans during the period 1941–1944 resulted in approximately 1.75 million casualties, or nearly 11 percent of the entire population of the occupied territory. Understanding the motivations and decisions of officers responsible for this exceptionally brutal occupation without resorting to broad generalizations is a difficult task, but Ben Shepherd provides a revealing account of the inner workings of the Wehrmacht's impossible mission in the Balkans. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu046 |