The War Aims And Strategies Of Adolf Hitler

Author : Oscar Pinkus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786420544

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The War Aims and Strategies of Adolf Hitler by Oscar Pinkus Pdf

Many have commented upon Hitler's inexplicable behavior during World War II. He failed to invade England; he neglected his air force; he engaged enemies on multiple fronts. Viewed in terms of Germany's struggle against the West, these and other actions made little sense. In truth, however, the war against Western powers had little to do with Hitler's grand plan: to conquer Russia and lands to the east of Germany, eradicate or enslave their populations, and create a vast Teutonic empire. In light of this goal, Hitler's actions were consistent throughout. In line with his dictum of "All or Nothing," once Hitler failed to defeat Russia in December 1941, he conducted the rest of the war with the sole purpose of inflicting maximum bloodshed and desolation, including upon Germany itself. Weakened, sensing defeat, he knew he was a drowning man--and he was determined to take friend and foe alike down with him. This evaluation of Hitler's objectives in World War II expands upon a theory gaining prominence among historians: Hitler's true motive was a crusade against the East, and he had little interest in waging war with England, much less the United States. It examines the different nature of the war on the Eastern and Western fronts; the disparate treatment afforded the two groups of POWs and civilians; and Hitler's scorched-earth policy, adopted after his primary objective proved beyond his grasp. In poignant, painful detail, it recreates the Russians' devastating four-year struggle against Germany, which went much further towards ensuring its defeat than any of the comparatively belated Western efforts.

Author : Norman Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0393008029

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Hitler's War Aims by Norman Rich Pdf

"Dealing with the military phase of Hitler's expansion, Rich tells an absorbing story of Germany's relentless drive in every direction and provides a vivid account of the relations between Hitler and his newly acquired subjects and satellites." --Hans W. Gatzke, Political Science Quarterly

Author : Norman Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974-02
Category : History
ISBN : 039333290X

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Hitler's War Aims by Norman Rich Pdf

After an opening chapter that describes the treatment of the Jews in German society, the focus shifts to the government and administration of the conquered countries--ranging from those nations with a substantial population of ethnic Germans to those, such as the Balkan states, where few, if any, "Germanic" peoples could be found. To round out the account, Professor Rich also deals with Hitler's intentions toward countries and continents that never were brought into the Nazi empire. The volume provides a comprehensive picture of the world that would have existed had Hitler achieved the totality of his war aims.

Author : Heinz Magenheimer
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474602754

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Hitler's War by Heinz Magenheimer Pdf

This is a closely argued and wide-ranging assessment of just how, with so many alternatives open, the German High Command chose the path that led, ultimately, to its own destruction. Heinz Magenheimer examines in detail the options that were open to the Germans as the war progressed. He identifies the crucial moments at which fateful decisions needed to be made, and considers how decisions different from those actually taken could have propelled the conflict in entirely different directions. Using the very latest source material, in particular new research from Soviet Russian sources, the author analyses motives and objectives and considers the opportunities acted upon or rejected, concentrating especially on specific phases of the conflict.

Author : John Robert Bengtson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258004631

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Nazi War Aims by John Robert Bengtson Pdf

Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013429868

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Hitler's War by Edwin Palmer Hoyt Pdf

Written in the fast-paced, dramatic style Hoyt's readers expect is this skillful rendering of a mesmerizing period of military history, and a new portrait of the man who dominated an era. 32 photos.

Author : James P. Duffy
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060398685

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TARGET: AMERICA by James P. Duffy Pdf

Detailed here for the first time are the Third Reich's plans for a projected series of worldwide offensives using the new secret weapons emerging from wartime research.

Author : Eleanor H. Ayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Germany
ISBN : 1560060727

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Adolf Hitler by Eleanor H. Ayer Pdf

Seven bears sneak out of bed, through the window, and across the dark countryside to investigate the source of a noise.

Author : Alex Weisiger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468179

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Logics of War by Alex Weisiger Pdf

Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864-1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history. When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger's treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists.

Author : Annelee Woodstrom
Publisher : McCleery & Sons Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 1931916209

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War Child by Annelee Woodstrom Pdf

Indoctrination -- May Day celebration -- Changes -- The Aryan -- Nazi exhibitions power -- Catching the Nazi fever -- Fall harvest -- One people, one Reich, one leader -- September 1939, World War II -- The war expands and home front efforts intensify -- The Russian front -- Children's evacuation -- January 1943, Regensburg -- Bombing casualties -- My last time with papa -- Victory lost -- Hell on Earth, October 1944 -- Tomorrow may never come -- 1945, going home -- War's end, 1945 -- Running from the enemy -- War's aftermath -- Revelations -- The gentleman soldier -- No more secrets -- Man's inhumanity to man, life goes on -- Crossing the line -- 1945 to 1947 coping -- Wither thou goest, I will go -- Another world, a land of peace -- Arrival -- Red tape before marriage.

Author : Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780691221403

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Nurses in Nazi Germany by Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke Pdf

This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945. How could men and women who were trained to care for their patients come to kill or assist in murder or mistreatment? This is the central question pursued by Bronwyn McFarland-Icke as she details the lives of nurses from the beginning of the Weimar Republic through the years of National Socialist rule. Rather than examine what the Party did or did not order, she looks into the hearts and minds of people whose complicity in murder is not easily explained with reference to ideological enthusiasm. Her book is a micro-history in which many of the most important ethical, social, and cultural issues at the core of Nazi genocide can be addressed from a fresh perspective. McFarland-Icke offers gripping descriptions of the conditions and practices associated with psychiatric nursing during these years by mining such sources as nursing guides, personnel records, and postwar trial testimony. Nurses were expected to be conscientious and friendly caretakers despite job stress, low morale, and Nazi propaganda about patients' having "lives unworthy of living." While some managed to cope with this situation, others became abusive. Asylum administrators meanwhile encouraged nurses to perform with as little disruption and personal commentary as possible. So how did nurses react when ordered to participate in, or tolerate, the murder of their patients? Records suggest that some had no conflicts of conscience; others did as they were told with regret; and a few refused. The remarkable accounts of these nurses enable the author to re-create the drama taking place while sharpening her argument concerning the ability and the willingness to choose.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015059991813

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Historical Review of Developments Relating to Aggression by United Nations Pdf

This report was prepared for the Working Group on the Crime of Aggression at the 8th session of Preparatory Commission, held in September-October 2001. The paper consists of four parts relating to: the Nuremberg tribunal; tribunals establish pursuant to Control Council Law number 10; the Tokyo tribunal; and the United Nations. Annexes contain tables regarding aggression by a State and individual responsibility for crimes against peace. The paper seeks to provide an objective, analytical overview of the history and major developments relating to aggression, both before and after the adoption of the UN Charter.

Author : United States Military Academy. Department of Military Art and Engineering
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCAL:B5028288

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The Campaign in Poland, 1939 by United States Military Academy. Department of Military Art and Engineering Pdf

Poland, with the fifth largest army in Europe, was the first nation to feel the attack of the rejuvenated Nazi war machine. Because of later German conquests, the world has largely forgotten this initial success. Yet in one respect the rapid annihilation of the Polish Army was Germany's most important conquest. This campaign demonstrated to Germany, if not to the rest of the world, the correctness of her military doctrine. It furnished the proving ground for her organization and weapons. The rapidity of Poland's complete destruction came as a shocking surprise to the world at large. Eight days after the beginning of the war, all Polish forces were in demoralized retreat; and a month later, the entire fighting force of a million men had been annihilated. Military history offers no prior example of a conquest so rapid and complete. In this victory the new German air and mechanized forces played an unprecedented part. Nevertheless, it would be wrong to say that German success was due to these two arms alone. Simply stated, Germany's stupendous conquest may be attributed to the superiority of the entire German Army over the outmoded Polish war machine. Germany's balanced, well-trained, and ably led forces found no match in those of her smaller rival. This account of the campaign in Poland has been written for use in the instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy. It is based for the most part on material prepared by the Military Intelligence Service, War Department. -- Abstract.

Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079

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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.

Author : Paul Madden
Publisher : Magill Bibliographies
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020197799

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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Epoch by Paul Madden Pdf

A comprehensive reference source designed to identify all English-language works that relate to the Nazis and the Third Reich. Included in this bibliography are monographs, biographies, pamphlets, and journal articles, as well as more general histories of the time period.