Author : Alfred Vagts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258028115
Hitler's Second Army
Alfred Vagts
Hitler S Second Army
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Hitler's Second Army
Edmund L. Blandford
Author : Edmund L. Blandford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0760300216
Hitler's Second Army by Edmund L. Blandford Pdf
Traces the history of the Waffen-SS, and describes the training and combat experiences of its soldiers
Waffen SS
Edmund L. Blandford
Author : Edmund L. Blandford
Publisher : Airlife Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1840374594
Waffen SS by Edmund L. Blandford Pdf
It would be difficult to find any military force in history as unique and perhaps as controversial as Hitler's Waffen SS. In this work its origins are traced via the recollections of men intimately involved. How this small band of tough men became transformed into a nationwide political protection force is fairly well known, but how some of these men were taken and transformed into a fully militarized force has always been obscure. This books covers the combat experiences of Waffen-SS soldiers on the battlefronts from 1939-1945, infantrymen, artillerymen, tankmen and even the more unusual trades of recruiters and interpreters.
Hitler's Army
Omer Bartov
Author : Omer Bartov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199879618
Hitler's Army by Omer Bartov Pdf
As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But in this compelling account Omer Bartov reveals a very different history, as he probes the experience of the average soldier to show just how thoroughly Nazi ideology permeated the army. In Hitler's Army, Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union--where the vast majority of German troops fought--to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of the Eastrn front, he writes, soldiers embraced the idea that the war was a defense of civilization against Jewish/Bolshevik barbarism, a war of racial survival to be waged at all costs. Bartov describes the incredible scale and destruction of the invasion of Russia in horrific detail. Even in the first months--often depicted as a time of easy victories--undermanned and ill-equipped German units were stretched to the breaking point by vast distances and bitter Soviet resistance. Facing scarce supplies and enormous casualties, the average soldier sank to ta a primitive level of existence, re-experiencing the trench warfare of World War I under the most extreme weather conditions imaginable; the fighting itself was savage, and massacres of prisoners were common. Troops looted food and supplies from civilians with wild abandon; they mercilessly wiped out villages suspected of aiding partisans. Incredible losses led to recruits being thrown together in units that once had been filled with men from the same communities, making Nazi ideology even more important as a binding force. And they were further brutalized by a military justice system that executed almost 15,000 German soldiers during the war. Bartov goes on to explore letters, diaries, military reports, and other sources, showing how widespread Hitler's views became among common fighting men--men who grew up, he reminds us, under the Nazi regime. In the end, they truly became Hitler's army. In six years of warfare, the vast majority of German men passed through the Wehrmacht and almost every family had a relative who fought in the East. Bartov's powerful new account of how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the army sheds new light on how deeply it penetrated the nation. Hitler's Army makes an important correction not merely to the historical record but to how we see the world today.
Hitler's Soldiers
Ben H. Shepherd
Author : Ben H. Shepherd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300219524
Hitler's Soldiers by Ben H. Shepherd Pdf
For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people’s army, drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad, Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army’s early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to 1945, the latter due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler’s mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the failings—moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational—of the army’s own leadership.
Waffen-SS
Adrian Gilbert
Author : Adrian Gilbert
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306824661
Waffen-SS by Adrian Gilbert Pdf
From an award-winning and bestselling historian, the first comprehensive military history in over fifty years of Hitler's famous and infamous personal army: the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was one of the most feared combat organizations of the twentieth century. Originally formed as a protection squad for Adolf Hitler it became the military wing of Heinrich Himmler's SS and a key part of the Nazi state, with nearly 900,000 men passing through its ranks. The Waffen-SS played a crucial role in furthering the aims of the Third Reich which made its soldiers Hitler's political operatives. During its short history, the elite military divisions of the Waffen-SS acquired a reputation for excellence, but their famous battlefield record of success was matched by their repeated and infamous atrocities against both soldiers and civilians. Waffen-SS is the first definitive single-volume military history of the Waffen-SS in more than 50 years. In considering the actions of its leading personalities, including Himmler, Sepp Dietrich, and Otto Skorzeny, and analyzing its specialist training and ideological outlook, eminent historian Adrian Gilbert chronicles the battles and campaigns that brought the Waffen-SS both fame and infamy.
The German Campaign in Russia
George E. Blau
Author : George E. Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:39000003543241
The German Campaign in Russia by George E. Blau Pdf
Hitler's Second Book
Adolf Hitler
Author : Adolf Hitler
Publisher : Enigma Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781929631612
Hitler's Second Book by Adolf Hitler Pdf
The unpublished followup to Hitler's autobiography never published during the dictator's lifetime includes details of his vision for a foreign policy based on continual aggression that would inevitably result in a confrontation with the United States, which he saw as a major stumbling block to his plans.
Unlikely Warrior
Georg Rauch
Author : Georg Rauch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374301439
Unlikely Warrior by Georg Rauch Pdf
As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry—in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a nineteen year old thrust unwillingly into an unjust war, who must use his smarts, skills, and bare-knuckled determination to stay alive in the trenches, avoid starvation and exposure during the brutal Russian winter, survive more than one Soviet labor camp, and somehow find his way back home. Unlikely Warrior is Rauch's true account of this extraordinary adventure.
Hitler's Legions
Samuel W. Mitcham
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812829921
Hitler's Legions by Samuel W. Mitcham Pdf
Adam Czerniakow was for almost three years the chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat-a Jew, devoted to his people, who served as the Nazi-sponsored mayor of the Warsaw Ghetto. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto's terminal agony.
The Second World War
Antony Beevor
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079
The Second World War by Antony Beevor Pdf
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
Bryan Mark Rigg
Author : Bryan Mark Rigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055107950
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg Pdf
On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military. Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or "partial-Jews" (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought-perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals. As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the "race" of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers. The process of investigation and removal, however, was marred by a highly inconsistent application of Nazi law. Numerous "exemptions" were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these "exemption" orders.) But as the war dragged on, Nazi politics came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmacht's growing manpower needs, closing legal loopholes and making it virtually impossible for these soldiers to escape the fate of millions of other victims of the Third Reich. Based on a deep and wide-ranging research in archival and secondary sources, as well as extensive interviews with more than four hundred Mischlinge and their relatives, Rigg's study breaks truly new ground in a crowded field and shows from yet another angle the extremely flawed, dishonest, demeaning, and tragic essence of Hitler's rule.
The German Campaigns in the Balkans (spring, 1941).
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211221333
The German Campaigns in the Balkans (spring, 1941). by Anonim Pdf
Hitler's Second Army
Alfred Vagts
Author : Alfred Vagts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:32000006277760
Hitler's Second Army by Alfred Vagts Pdf
Hitler's Panzer Armies on the Eastern Front
Robert Kirchubel
Author : Robert Kirchubel
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848847002
Hitler's Panzer Armies on the Eastern Front by Robert Kirchubel Pdf
An in-depth look at the role armored formations played in the struggle between the Nazis and the Soviets. Hitler’s panzer armies spearheaded the blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front. They played a key role in every major campaign, not simply as tactical tools but also as operational weapons that shaped strategy. Their extraordinary triumphs—and their eventual defeat—mirrors the fate of German forces in the East. And yet no previous study has concentrated on the history of these elite formations in the bitter struggle against the Soviet Union. Robert Kirchubel’s absorbing and meticulously researched account of the operational history of the panzer armies fills this gap, using German sources including many firsthand accounts never before seen in English. And it gives a graphic insight into the organization, tactics, fighting methods, and morale of the Wehrmacht at the height of its powers and as it struggled to defend the Reich.