Terror in the Balkans : German Armies and Partisan Warfare / Ben Shepherd.
Shepherd, Ben, author.
2012
D766.6 .S44 2012
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Title Terror in the Balkans : German Armies and Partisan Warfare / Ben Shepherd.
Author Shepherd, Ben, author.
ISBN 9780674065130
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065130
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 16 halftones, 6 maps
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674065130 doi
Call Number D766.6 .S44 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.53/497
Summary Germany's 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to an insurgency as bloody as any in World War II. The Wehrmacht waged a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in response, and by 1943 German troops in Yugoslavia were engaged in operations that ranked among the largest of the entire European war. Their actions encompassed massive reprisal shootings, the destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile operations unleashed not just against insurgents but also against the civilian population believed to be aiding them. Terror in the Balkans explores the reasons behind the Wehrmacht's extreme security measures in southern and eastern Europe.Ben Shepherd focuses his study not on the high-ranking generals who oversaw the campaign but on lower-level units and their officers, a disproportionate number of whom were of Austrian origin. He uses Austro-Hungarian army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range of midlevel commanders and their units conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia, and why. Shepherd concludes that the Wehrmacht campaign's violence was driven not just by National Socialist ideology but also by experience of the fratricidal infighting of Yugoslavia's ethnic groups, by conditions on the ground, and by doctrines that had shaped the military mindsets of both Germany and Austria since the late nineteenth century. He also considers why different Wehrmacht units exhibited different degrees of ruthlessness and restraint during the campaign.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Before the Great War
Chapter 2. Forging a Wartime Mentality
Chapter 3. Bridging Two Hells
Chapter 4. Invasion and Occupation
Chapter 5. Islands in an Insurgent Sea
Chapter 6. Settling Accounts in Blood
Chapter 7. Standing Divided
Chapter 8. Glimmers of Sanity
Chapter 9. The Morass
Chapter 10. The Devil's Division
Conclusion
Appendixes. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index
Appendix A. Source References for Featured Officers
Appendix B. Note on the Primary Sources
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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