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.