This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German
army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the
standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War
II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS troops,
and not an accomplice to the massacres of civilians. Wolfram Wette,
a preeminent German military historian, explodes the myth of a
"clean" Wehrmacht with devastating clarity.
This book reveals the Wehrmacht's long-standing prejudices
against Jews, Slavs, and Bolsheviks, beliefs that predated the
prophecies of "Mein Kampf" and the paranoia of National Socialism.
Though the sixteen-million-member German army is often portrayed as
a victim of Nazi mania, we come to see that from 1941 to 1944 these
soldiers were thoroughly involved in the horrific cleansing of
Russia and Eastern Europe. Wette compellingly documents Germany's
long-term preparation of its army for a race war deemed necessary
to safeguard the country's future; World War II was merely the
fulfillment of these plans, on a previously unimaginable scale.
This sober indictment of millions of German soldiers reaches
beyond the Wehrmacht's complicity to examine how German academics
and ordinary citizens avoided confronting this difficult truth at
war's end. Wette shows how atrocities against Jews and others were
concealed and sanitized, and history rewritten. Only recently has
the German public undertaken a reevaluation of this respected
national institution--a painful but necessary process if we are to
truly comprehend how the Holocaust was carried out and how we have
come to understand it.
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