The Waffen-SS: A European HistoryJochen Böhler and Robert Gerwarth
The non-Germans who fought in the German armed forces during World War II, particularly in the Waffen-SS, had to wait a long time for their stories to be told. During the Cold War, a simplistic dichotomy held sway. Historians in both East and West demonized them as collaborators and war criminals. T...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-124 |
| Review of: | The Waffen-SS (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Citino, Robert M.)
The Waffen-SS (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Citino, Robert M.) |
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| Summary: | The non-Germans who fought in the German armed forces during World War II, particularly in the Waffen-SS, had to wait a long time for their stories to be told. During the Cold War, a simplistic dichotomy held sway. Historians in both East and West demonized them as collaborators and war criminals. The veterans painted themselves as volunteers fighting to save Europe from “Bolshevism.”, Both tacks simplify: to the victorious Allies, non-Germans fighting in the Waffen-SS undercut the myth of bad Germans on one side and just about everyone else on the other—a fable to which both the Soviet and Western blocs subscribed. Waffen-SS veterans, meanwhile, gathered together at reunions and spun tales of combat against the Red Army—leaving out the slaughter of defenseless civilians. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz005 |