The Virtuous Wehrmacht : : Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 / / David A. Harrisville.
The Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front of World War II. How did they avoid feelings of guilt for the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly demonstr...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Terms and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Toward a Moral History of the Wehrmacht in the War of Extermination
- 1. Honorable Self and Villainous Other: Value Systems in the Wehrmacht
- 2. Rationalizing Atrocities: Self-Exoneration in Soldiers’ Letters
- 3. The “Crusaders”: Religious Justifications for Barbarossa
- 4. The “Liberators”: Barbarossa as an Emancipatory Act
- 5. Death and Victimhood: Cultivating Moral Superiority through Burial Practices
- Conclusion: A Myth Is Bor n
- Appendix: Biographical Details on the Core Sample of Soldiers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index