The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers - Rilegato

Muller, Rolf-Dieter

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ISBN 10: 1780760728 ISBN 13: 9781780760728

Casa editrice: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. Hitler's declaration of the ""struggle against Bolshevism"" reverberated throughout all of Europe - among convinced fascists as well as among non-Russian eastern Europeans seeking to regain their independence from the USSR. Many of these volunteers subsequently became involved in the atrocities of the Wehrmacht and the SS. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Müller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.

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Recensione:

A concise yet comprehensive treatment of the military operations of Hitler's foreign helpers in the war against the Soviet Union ... A very readable account that effectively dismantles myths and legends that have grown up around an important and neglected subject. --Jeff Rutherford, H-German

Definitive. --Die Welt

'In lifting the veil with which history has shrouded these men, Muller...has opened up a new vista on a largely forgotten, and sometimes deliberately neglected, but crucial aspect of recent history.' --Nigel Jones, Spectator

'The Unknown Eastern Front demonstrates that history especially - of a highly sensitive issue like this one - is rarely about neat binary categories of black and white, good and evil.' --Roger Moorhouse, TLS

Persuasive and readable. --Westdeutsche Zeitung

'... this is an important subject...[Müller] supplies full and useful detail on the contribution of all the different peoples who participated, with information on the numbers of soldiers and the tasks they were expected to fulfill.' --Richard Overy, History Today

Persuasive and readable. --Westdeutsche Zeitung

L'autore:

Rolf-Dieter Müller is Professor of Military History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute in Potsdam; and Coordinator of the The German Reich and the Second World War project. He is the author of numerous publications on World War II.

Rolf-Dieter Müller is Professor of Military History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute in Potsdam; and Coordinator of the The German Reich and the Second World War project. He is the author of numerous publications on World War II.

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• Editore: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780760728
• ISBN 13: 9781780760728
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 287