War of extermination : the German military in World War II, 1941-1944 / edited by Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann

The articles and photographs in this volume are selections from Vernichtungskrieg : Verbrechen der Wehrmacht, 1941 bis 1944, which was published in 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Volker R. Berghahn -- Introduction / Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann -- The Concept of the War of Annihilation: Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler / Jan Philipp Reemtsma -- PART I: CRIMES -- "Coming Along to Shoot Some Jews?" The Destruction of the Jews in Serbia / Walter Manoschek -- Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-42 / Hannes Heer -- Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Wehrmacht / Christian Streit -- The Logic of the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht and the Anti-Partisan War / Hannes Heer -- Men of 20 July and the War in the Soviet Union / Christian Gerlach -- Military Violence and the National Socialist Consensus: The Wehrmacht in Greece, 1941-44 / Mark Mazower -- Civitella della Chiana on 29 June 1944: The Reconstruction of a German "Measure" / Michael Geyer -- PART II: FORMATIONS -- Local Headquarters Liepaja: Two Months of German Occupation in the Summer of 1941 / Margers Vestermanis -- On the Way to Stalingrad: The 6th Army in 1941--42 / Bernd Boll and Hans Safrian -- Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine, October-December 1941 / Truman Anderson -- Koruck 582 / Theo J. Schulte -- How Amorality Became Normality: Reflections on the Mentality of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front / Hannes Heer -- Emptying the Gaze: Framing Violence through the Viewfinder / Bernd Hu¨ppauf -- PART III: AFTERMATH -- Forward Defense: The "Memorandum of the Generals" for the Nuremberg Court / Manfred Messerschmidt -- Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Wehrmacht and German Historiography / Omer Bartov -- The "Unblemished" Wehrmacht: The Social History of a Myth / Klaus Naumann.