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Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front - The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944 (Paperback)
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Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front - The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Military Histories
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By 1944, the overwhelming majority of the German Army had
participated in the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union
and historians continue to debate the motivations behind the
violence unleashed in the east. Jeff Rutherford offers an important
new contribution to this debate through a study of combat and the
occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. He shows
that while Nazi racial ideology provided a legitimizing context in
which violence was not only accepted but encouraged, it was the
Wehrmacht's adherence to a doctrine of military necessity which is
critical in explaining why German soldiers fought as they did. This
meant that the German Army would do whatever was necessary to
emerge victorious on the battlefield. Periods of brutality were
intermixed with conciliation as the army's view and treatment of
the civilian population evolved based on its appreciation of the
larger context of war in the east.
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