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Terror in the Balkans - German Armies and Partisan Warfare (Hardcover, New)
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Terror in the Balkans - German Armies and Partisan Warfare (Hardcover, New)
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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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