Военная история / The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944

Название: The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
Автор: David A. Harrisville
Издательство: Cornell University Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 324
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 28 MB

The Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly demonstrates that this myth of innocence was created during the course of the war itself?and did not arise as a postwar whitewashing of events.