Physical Description
xix, 457 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
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.
Other Authors/Editors
Heer, Hannes.
Naumann, Klaus,
Notes
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.
