LEADER 04229cam a2200469 i 4500001 256066 005 20180510132137.0 008 170322s2016 ctuacf b 000 0 eng 010 2016003731 035 (OCoLC)ocn930798088 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dERASA |dYDXCP |dBDX |dBTCTA |dOCLCF |dVP@ |dGVA |dCOO |dNYP |dPUL |dSTF |dGBVCP |dDEBSZ |dCRSBY |dNLGGC |dNLE |dOCLCO |dOKJ |dOCLCQ |dLHM 020 9780300179033 |q(cloth ; |qalkaline paper) 020 0300179030 |q(cloth ; |qalkaline paper) 024 3 9780300179033 042 pcc 050 00 D757.1 |b.S54 2016 049 LHMA 100 1 Shepherd, Ben |q(Ben H.), |eauthor. 245 10 Hitler's soldiers : |bthe German army in the Third Reich / |cBen H. Shepherd. 264 1 New Haven ;London : |bYale University Press, |c[2016] 300 xxiii, 639 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, portraits ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 2 "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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-615). 505 0 The Army in the New Reich, 1933-36 -- Road to War, 1936-39 -- Poland, 1939-40 -- "Sitzkrieg," 1939-40 -- The Greatest Victory, 1940 -- Occupying the West, 1940-41 -- Planning Operation Barbarossa, 1940-41 -- Barbarossa Unleashed, 1941 -- Barbarossa Undone, 1941 -- Resistance and Reaction, 1941 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe -- Winter Crisis, 1941-42 -- The Desert War, 1941-42 -- Southern Russia and Stalingrad, 1942-43 -- Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : The Soviet Union -- Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe -- The Initiative Lost, 1943 -- Takeover in Southern Europe, 1943-44 -- The Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Ostheer Retreats -- The Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Frontsoldat Endures -- Italy, 1943-44 -- Fortress Europe Breached, 1943-44 -- The Greatest Defeat, 1944 -- The Army "Recovers," 1944-45 -- The Army Self-Destructs, 1945. 610 10 Germany. |bHeer |xHistory |yWorld War, 1939-1945. 650 0 Soldiers |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 610 10 Germany. |bHeer |xMilitary life |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |zGermany. 650 0 Command of troops |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCampaigns. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xOccupied territories. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. 650 0 War crimes |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 610 24 Germany. |bHeer. 610 17 Germany. |bHeer. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00534549 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 856 42 |3Table of contents |uhttp://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780300179033.pdf |qpdf/application 852 0 |bstacks |hD757.1 |i.S54 2016