| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Series |
Battlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history
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Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: toward a moral history of the Wehrmacht in the war of extermination -- Honorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht -- Rationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters -- The "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa -- The "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act -- Death and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices -- Conclusion: a myth is born. |
| Summary |
"This book examines how German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during the Second World War rationalized their participation in a criminal campaign, and how the Wehrmacht attempted to assert moral superiority over its Soviet enemies. In the process, it redefines the origins of the myth of the "clean" Wehrmacht"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Germany.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Germany.
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Justification (Ethics)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union.
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HISTORY / Military / World War II |
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Atrocities |
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Ethics |
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Justification (Ethics) |
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Military campaigns |
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Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)) |
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Germany |
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Soviet Union |
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World War (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Indexed Term |
ethics and the Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht crimes, the clean Wehrmacht myth, how soldiers explain their crimes, wehrmacht and nazi ideology. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Harrisville, David A.. The virtuous Wehrmacht Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501760044 (DLC) 2021008205 |
| ISBN |
9781501760068 (epub) |
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1501760068 |
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9781501760051 (pdf) |
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150176005X |
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9781501760044 (hardcover) |
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1501760041 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501760051 |
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