Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third ReichBen H. Shepherd
In the twenty years following the end of the Second World War in Europe, the losers wrote the history books. That is, Germany's military leaders established a narrative in which the war's origins, its culmination in their country's ruinous defeat, and the horrible crimes that attended...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 314-317 |
| Review of: | Hitler's soldiers (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016) (Megargee, Geoffrey P.)
Hitler's soldiers (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016) (Megargee, Geoffrey P.) |
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| Summary: | In the twenty years following the end of the Second World War in Europe, the losers wrote the history books. That is, Germany's military leaders established a narrative in which the war's origins, its culmination in their country's ruinous defeat, and the horrible crimes that attended it were all solely the fault of Adolf Hitler and his evil Nazi minions, while the German Army fought honorably and skillfully against overwhelming odds. Although evidence to the contrary was there from the start, the generals led a campaign of dissimulation that, in the context of the emerging Cold War, met with success on both sides of the Iron Curtain. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx029 |