Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front (Paperback)

Jeff Rutherford

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Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014

1107652731 / 9781107652736

Series: Book 24 of 52 - Cambridge Military Histories

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Paperback. By 1944, the overwhelming majority of the German Army had participated in the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and historians continue to debate the motivations behind the violence unleashed in the east. Jeff Rutherford offers an important new contribution to this debate through a study of combat and the occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. He shows that while Nazi racial ideology provided a legitimizing context in which violence was not only accepted but encouraged, it was the Wehrmacht's adherence to a doctrine of military necessity which is critical in explaining why German soldiers fought as they did. This meant that the German Army would do whatever was necessary to emerge victorious on the battlefield. Periods of brutality were intermixed with conciliation as the army's view and treatment of the civilian population evolved based on its appreciation of the larger context of war in the east. This book examines how the German infantry divisions both waged war against the Red Army and interacted with civilians in the industrial suburbs of Leningrad and the villages of the Demiansk Pocket by focusing on their participation in the starvation policy and their role in anti-partisan and forced labour programs. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front (Paperback)
Author
Jeff Rutherford
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication year
2014
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Paperback
Language
English
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1107652731
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9781107652736
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Book 24 of 52: Cambridge Military Histories

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