The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers - Softcover

Rolf-Dieter Muller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780768907 ISBN 13: 9781780768908

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2014

Synopsis

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. For the first time, this book tells the story of these men. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Muller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.

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Review:

A concise yet comprehensive treatment of the military operations of Hitler's foreign helpers in the war against the Soviet Union ... A very readable account that effectively dismantles myths and legends that have grown up around an important and neglected subject.

Jeff Rutherford, H-German

Definitive Die Welt

Persuasive and readable Westdeutsche Zeitung

Rarely is so much historical knowledge presented in such little space. --Deutschlandfunk

About the Author:

Rolf-Dieter Muller is Professor of Military History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute in Potsdam; and Co-ordinator of the 'The German Reich and the Second World War' project. He is the author of numerous publications on World War II.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780768907
• ISBN 13: 9781780768908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320