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000464761 1001_ $$aShepherd, Ben.
000464761 24510 $$aTerror in the Balkans$$h[electronic resource] :$$bGerman armies and partisan warfare /$$cBen Shepherd.
000464761 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012.
000464761 300__ $$a1 online resource (vi, 342 p.) :$$bill., maps.
000464761 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000464761 5050_ $$aBefore the Great War : changes in the officer corps -- Forging a wartime mentality : the impact of World War I -- Bridging two Hells : the 1920s and 1930s -- Invasion and occupation : Yugoslavia, 1941 -- Islands in an insurgent sea : the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia -- Settling accounts in blood : the 342d Infantry Division in Serbia -- Standing divided : the independent state of Croatia, 1942 -- Glimmers of sanity : the 718th Infantry Division in Bosnia -- The morass : attitudes harden in the 718th Infantry Division -- The Devil's Division : the 369th Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943.
000464761 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000464761 520__ $$aGermany'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.
000464761 61010 $$aGermany.$$bHeer$$xHistory$$yWorld War, 1939-1945.
000464761 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1939-1945$$zYugoslavia.
000464761 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1939-1945$$xUnderground movements$$zYugoslavia.
000464761 651_0 $$aYugoslavia$$xHistory$$yAxis occupation, 1941-1945.
000464761 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aShepherd, Ben.$$tTerror in the Balkans.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2012$$z9780674048911$$w(DLC) 2011048292$$w(OCoLC)758383493
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