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

Müller, Rolf-Dieter

ISBN 10: 1780760728 / ISBN 13: 9781780760728

Published by I.B. Tauris, 2012

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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. Hitler s declaration of the struggle against Bolshevism reverberated throughout all of Europe - among convinced fascists as well as among non-Russian eastern Europeans seeking to regain their independence from the USSR. Many of these volunteers subsequently became involved in the atrocities of the Wehrmacht and the SS. 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 Müller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.

About the Author: Rolf-Dieter Muller is Professor of Military History at the 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and...
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good