Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Germany
ISBN : SRLF:A0011496866
Handbook on German Military Forces
Anonim
With The German Armies In The
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German Ground Forces of World War II
William T. McCroden,Thomas E. Nutter
Author : William T. McCroden,Thomas E. Nutter
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 1257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611211016
German Ground Forces of World War II by William T. McCroden,Thomas E. Nutter Pdf
A groundbreaking and comprehensive order of battle for German ground troops in WWII, from the invasion of Poland to the final defeat in Berlin. An indispensable reference work for Second World War scholars and enthusiasts, German Ground Forces of World War II captures the continuously changing character of Nazi ground forces throughout the conflict. For the first time, readers can follow the career of every German division, corps, army, and army group as the German armed forces shifted units to and from theaters of war. Organized by sections including Theater Commands, Army Groups, Armies, and Corps Commands, it presents a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. This innovative resource also describes the orders of battle of the myriad German and Axis satellite formations assigned to security commands throughout occupied Europe and the combat zones, as well as those attached to fortress commands and to the commanders of German occupation forces across Europe. An accompanying narrative describes the career of each field formation and includes the background and experience of many of their most famous commanding officers.
The Wehrmacht
Tim Ripley
Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1579583121
The Wehrmacht by Tim Ripley Pdf
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The German Army on the Eastern Front
Jeff Rutherford,Adrian E Wettstein
Author : Jeff Rutherford,Adrian E Wettstein
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473861763
The German Army on the Eastern Front by Jeff Rutherford,Adrian E Wettstein Pdf
Histories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line. They tend to neglect other aspects of the armys experience, particularly its participation in the racial war demanded by the leadership of the Reich. This ground-breaking book aims to correct this incomplete, often misleading picture. Using a selection of revealing extracts from a wide range of wartime documents, it looks at the totality of the Wehrmachts war in the East. The documents have previously been unpublished or have never been translated into English, and they offer a fascinating inside view of the armys actions and attitudes. Combat is covered, and complicity in Hitlers war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. There are sections on the conduct of the war in the rear areas logistics, medical, judicial and the armys tactics, motivation and leadership. The entire text is informed by the latest research into the reality of the conflict as it was perceived and understood by those who took part.
The German Campaign in Russia
George E. Blau
Author : George E. Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:39000003543241
The German Campaign in Russia by George E. Blau Pdf
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare
Gerhard P. Gross
Author : Gerhard P. Gross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813168395
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare by Gerhard P. Gross Pdf
Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of warfare dominated military theory and practice, creating a myth of German operational brilliance that lingers today, despite the nation's crushing defeats in two world wars. In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid--nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history, including Moltke the Elder, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Erich Ludendorff. Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.
The Wehrmacht Retreats
Robert M. Citino
Author : Robert M. Citino
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700623433
The Wehrmacht Retreats by Robert M. Citino Pdf
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal. Drawing on his impeccable command of German-language sources, Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein's great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. Through these events, he reveals how a military establishment historically configured for violent aggression reacted when the tables were turned; how German commanders viewed their newest enemy, the U.S. Army, after brutal fighting against the British and Soviets; and why, despite their superiority in materiel and manpower, the Allies were unable to turn 1943 into a much more decisive year. Applying the keen operational analysis for which he is so highly regarded, Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision-to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe-had strong supporters among the army's officer corps. He looks at all of these engagements from the perspective of each combatant nation and also establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt the synergistic interplay between the fronts. Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.
Hitler's Soldiers
Ben H. Shepherd
Author : Ben H. Shepherd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.
With the German Armies in the West
S. Hedin Trans by H. G. De Walterstorff
Author : S. Hedin Trans by H. G. De Walterstorff
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845743245
With the German Armies in the West by S. Hedin Trans by H. G. De Walterstorff Pdf
The conduct of the German forces in their attack on Belgium that brought Britain into the Great War has long been controversial. Reports of atroctities - including the mass shooting of civilians and wanton vandalism - were played up in Allied propaganda - and subsequently widely disbelieved, only to be revived by modern scholars. This book is something of a rarity - and caused a furore when it was first published - as it is a propagandist work written from the German side and published in English in 1915 shortly after the events it describes, while the war was raging and hatred for Germany at its height. Its author, the celebrated Swedish explorer and mountaineer, Dr Sven Hedin, although officially a neutral, was an unashamed admirer of Germany given priledged access to interview German soldiers as well as Allied prisoners. He denies that his beloved Germans took part in any cruel atrocities and in his preface he berates Britain for entering the war at all - and re-states his faith in German victory. In an apologetic note, Hedin's English publisher, John Lane, says his purpose is to 'rouse the British Lion by tweaking its tail', pointing out that Hedin's account of the 1914 campaign gives a true picture of the efficiency of the German military - which Lane calls 'the wonderul organisation against which we are fighting'. Plentifully illustrated with photos, drawings and maps, this eye-witness account of the campaign that set the course of the war, despite its admitted bias, is a must for all Great War buffs - and for students of wartime propaganda. Hedin went on to write other similar pro-German books in both world wars, and became an adm irer of Hitler and the Third Reich, though he was never an open Nazi.
War of Extermination
Hannes Heer,Klaus Naumann
Author : Hannes Heer,Klaus Naumann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571814937
War of Extermination by Hannes Heer,Klaus Naumann Pdf
This volume contains the most important contributions by distinguished historians who have thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges from this collection is a depressing one and raises many questions about why "ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and bystanders in an unprecedented program of extermination of "racially inferior" men, women, and children in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Second World War."--Pub. desc.
German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 [Illustrated Edition]
Earl Ziemke
Author : Earl Ziemke
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899778
German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 [Illustrated Edition] by Earl Ziemke Pdf
[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.
The Creation of the Modern German Army
William Mulligan
Author : William Mulligan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571819088
The Creation of the Modern German Army by William Mulligan Pdf
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War and the First Head of the Army Command in the Weimar Republic. Though less well known than his great rival, Hans von Seeckt, Reinhardt's role in forming the young Reichswehr and his writings on warfare made him one of the most important and influential military figures in interwar Germany. Contrary to the conventional view that civil-military relations were fraught from the outset, the author argues, Reinhardt's contribution to the military politics of the Weimar Republic shows that opportunities for reform and co-operation with civilian leaders existed. However, although he is primarily seen as a liberal General, this study demonstrates that he was motivated by professional military considerations and by the specter of a future war. His ideas on modern warfare were amongst the most radical of the time.
The German Army League
Marilyn Shevin Coetzee
Author : Marilyn Shevin Coetzee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195362930
The German Army League by Marilyn Shevin Coetzee Pdf
This book traces the development of the German Army League from its inception through the earliest days of the Weimar Republic. Founded in January 1912, the League promoted the intensification of German militarism and the cultivation of German nationalism. As the last and second largest of the patriotic societies to emerge after 1890, the League led the campaign for army expansion in 1912 and 1913, and against the growing influence of socialism and pacifism within Germany. Attempting to harness popular and nationalist sentiment against the government's foreign and domestic policies by preying on Germans' fears of defeat and socialism, the League contributed to the polarization of German society and aggravated the international tensions which culminated in the Great War. Coetzee combines an analysis of the League's principal personalities and policies with an exploration of the inner workings of local and regional branches, arguing that rather than having served solely as a barometer of populist nationalist sentiment, the League also reflected the machinations of men of education and prominence who believed that an unresponsive German government had stifled their own careers, dealt ineffectually with the prospect of domestic unrest, and squandered the nation's military superiority over its European rivals.
Hitler's Soldiers
Ben H. Shepherd
Author : Ben H. Shepherd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300179033
Hitler's Soldiers by Ben H. Shepherd Pdf
A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe 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.
The German Army in World War I (1)
Nigel Thomas
Author : Nigel Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780965512
The German Army in World War I (1) by Nigel Thomas Pdf
In August 1914 the mobilization of Imperial Germany's 800,000-strong army ushered in the first great war of the modern age a war which still stands as the greatest slaughter of soldiers in history. That German Army is also the best example of a particular period of military thought, when virtually the whole manpower of the European nations was integrated into mass conscript armies, supported by several age categories of reservists and by dedicated industrial and transport systems. In this first of three volumes the author offers an extraordinary mass of information, in text and tables, illustrated by photographs and colour plates.