Absolute Destruction : : Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany / / Isabel V. Hull.
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as t...
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Hull, Isabel V., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Absolute Destruction : Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany / Isabel V. Hull. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (400 p.) : 5 maps, 1 table, 16 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. Suppression Becomes Annihilation: Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 -- PART II. Military Culture -- PART III. The First World War -- Conclusions and Implications -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures of this distinctively German military culture that the Army, in its drive to annihilate the enemy military, did not shrink from the utter destruction of civilian property and lives. Carried to its extreme, the logic of "military necessity" found real security only in extremities of destruction, in the "silence of the graveyard."Hull begins with a dramatic account, based on fresh archival work, of the German Army's slide from administrative murder to genocide in German Southwest Africa (1904-7). The author then moves back to 1870 and the war that inaugurated the Imperial era in German history, and analyzes the genesis and nature of this specifically German military culture and its operations in colonial warfare. In the First World War the routines perfected in the colonies were visited upon European populations. Hull focuses on one set of cases (Belgium and northern France) in which the transition to total destruction was checked (if barely) and on another (Armenia) in which "military necessity" caused Germany to accept its ally's genocidal policies even after these became militarily counterproductive. She then turns to the Endkampf (1918), the German General Staff's plan to achieve victory in the Great War even if the homeland were destroyed in the process-a seemingly insane campaign that completes the logic of this deeply institutionalized set of military routines and practices. Hull concludes by speculating on the role of this distinctive military culture in National Socialism's military and racial policies.Absolute Destruction has serious implications for the nature of warmaking in any modern power. At its heart is a warning about the blindness of bureaucratic routines, especially when those bureaucracies command the instruments of mass death. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Militarism Germany History. Europe. History. Military History. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801442582 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801467097 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801467097 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801467097/original |
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