Reluctant Accomplice : : A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front / / ed. by Konrad H. Jarausch.
Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth....
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Reluctant Accomplice : A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front / ed. by Konrad H. Jarausch. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (416 p.) : 30 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- In Search of a Father -- Part I. The Polish Campaign -- Introduction -- Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 -- Part II. Training Recruits -- Introduction -- Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 -- Part III. War of Annihilation in Russia -- Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to "In Search of a Father" -- Selected Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs are chilling. They reveal the inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became reluctant accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its suffering victims, a bond that could transcend race, nationalism, and the enmity of war. Reluctant Accomplice is also the powerful story of the son, who for decades refused to come to grips with these letters because he abhorred his father's nationalist politics. Only now, late in his life, is he able to cope with their contents--and he is by no means alone. This book provides rare insight into the so-called children of the war, an entire generation of postwar Germans who grew up resenting their past, but who today must finally face the painful legacy of their parents' complicity in National Socialism. 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 29. Jul 2021) Intellectuals Germany Correspondence. Soldiers Germany Correspondence. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, German. World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945 Moral and ethical aspects. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. bisacsh Adolf Hitler. Dulag. Germans. Jews. Konrad Jarausch. National Socialism. Nazi Germany. Nazis. Nazism. Poland. Poles. Protestant Church. Protestant pedagogy. Third Reich. USSR. World War II. army training. children. complicity. education. genocide. humanism. humanity. imperialism. letters. nationalism. new recruits. prisoner of war. transnational humanity. Jarausch, Konrad H., editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Kohn, Richard H., contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Kohn, Richard. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691140421 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836321?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400836321 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400836321.jpg |
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Reluctant Accomplice : A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- In Search of a Father -- Part I. The Polish Campaign -- Introduction -- Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 -- Part II. Training Recruits -- Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 -- Part III. War of Annihilation in Russia -- Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to "In Search of a Father" -- Selected Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- In Search of a Father -- Part I. The Polish Campaign -- Introduction -- Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 -- Part II. Training Recruits -- Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 -- Part III. War of Annihilation in Russia -- Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to "In Search of a Father" -- Selected Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index |
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