This thesis focuses on the motivation and conduct of units of the German Army of the East, the Ostheer, in the partisan war in central Russia from 1941 to 1943. The ruthlessness of the Ostheer’s anti-partisan campaign was driven not just by military necessity but also by National Socialist concepts of ideological warfare, by the German Army’s institutional phobia of guerrillas and by cold economic calculation. A pluralistic “history from below” approach of the kind employed here, however, can analyse motivation and conduct not just in terms of these general influences but also in terms of the particular circumstances in which units operated and the individual perceptions of their officers. The thesis contributes to this emerging Une of res...
My thesis seeks to understand if the Wehrmacht understood the Red Army\u27s operational doctrine fol...
Abstract This thesis explores to what degree the Wehrmacht was involved in atrocities on the Easter...
This thesis explores the shape and form of acts of dissent committed by ordinary Germans between 194...
During the Second World War, with the failure of the German invasion of the Soviet Union to maintai...
During the battles for East Prussia in the final year of the Second World War, the ruthless conduct ...
textThis work seeks both to modify and challenge the prevailing view of an ideologically-driven Army...
Members of both the German counterinsurgency forces and Soviet partisans terrorised the civilians of...
textThis work seeks both to modify and challenge the prevailing view of an ideologically-driven Army...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what can be considered a military blunder on the part of th...
The article analyses the process of organization of total military and political education in Hitler...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what can be considered a military blunder on the part of th...
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Hitler’s plan to annihilate Germany’s Eastern...
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Hitler’s plan to annihilate Germany’s Eastern...
The Partisan War in North-West Russia 1941-44: A Re-Examiniation delineates the extent to which the ...
The article examines the forms and methods of the Nazi occupation authorities’ struggle against the ...
My thesis seeks to understand if the Wehrmacht understood the Red Army\u27s operational doctrine fol...
Abstract This thesis explores to what degree the Wehrmacht was involved in atrocities on the Easter...
This thesis explores the shape and form of acts of dissent committed by ordinary Germans between 194...
During the Second World War, with the failure of the German invasion of the Soviet Union to maintai...
During the battles for East Prussia in the final year of the Second World War, the ruthless conduct ...
textThis work seeks both to modify and challenge the prevailing view of an ideologically-driven Army...
Members of both the German counterinsurgency forces and Soviet partisans terrorised the civilians of...
textThis work seeks both to modify and challenge the prevailing view of an ideologically-driven Army...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what can be considered a military blunder on the part of th...
The article analyses the process of organization of total military and political education in Hitler...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what can be considered a military blunder on the part of th...
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Hitler’s plan to annihilate Germany’s Eastern...
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Hitler’s plan to annihilate Germany’s Eastern...
The Partisan War in North-West Russia 1941-44: A Re-Examiniation delineates the extent to which the ...
The article examines the forms and methods of the Nazi occupation authorities’ struggle against the ...
My thesis seeks to understand if the Wehrmacht understood the Red Army\u27s operational doctrine fol...
Abstract This thesis explores to what degree the Wehrmacht was involved in atrocities on the Easter...
This thesis explores the shape and form of acts of dissent committed by ordinary Germans between 194...