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Hitler's soldiers : the German army in the Third Reich /

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 pi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shepherd, Ben (Ben H.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Germany. > Heer > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Germany. > Heer > Military life > History > 20th century.
Soldiers > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Germany.
Command of troops > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns.
World War, 1939-1945 > Occupied territories.
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities.
War crimes > Germany > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 the Balkans
  • 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 the Balkans
  • 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.