Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the
mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar
West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been
involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were
particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches,
the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest
and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was
entirely the work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most
important contributions by distinguished historians who have
thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges
from this collection is a depressing one and raises many questions
about why "ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and
bystanders in an unprecedented program of extermination of
"racially inferior" men, women, and children in Eastern Europe and
the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Those who have seen
these terrible photos of mass executions and other atrocities,
currently on show in an exhibition in Germany and soon to be in the
United States, will find this volume most enlightening.
Hannes Heer is a historian and film director. Klaus Naumann is a
historain and journalist; both are Fellows of the Hamburg Institute
for Social Studies.
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