A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns,
relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes
across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally
believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had
largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the
Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and
recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture.
For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the
Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions,
and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social
composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in
war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people's army,
drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it
existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad,
Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its
crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied
countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these
crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more
complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the
army's early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to
1945, the latter due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler's
mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the
failings-moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational-of
the army's own leadership.
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