The virtuous Wehrmacht : crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 / David A. Harrisville.
2021
D744.5.G3 H37 2021
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The virtuous Wehrmacht : crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 / David A. Harrisville.
ISBN
9781501760051 (electronic book)
150176005X (electronic book)
9781501760044
1501760041
150176005X (electronic book)
9781501760044
1501760041
Published
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : illustrations.
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D744.5.G3 H37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.54/217
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents
Introduction: toward a moral history of the Wehrmacht in the war of extermination
Honorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht
Rationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters
The "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa
The "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act
Death and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices
Conclusion: a myth is born.
Honorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht
Rationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters
The "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa
The "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act
Death and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices
Conclusion: a myth is born.