List of Abbreviations
Preface
Volker R. Berghahn
Introduction
Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann
Chapter 1. The Concept of the War of
Annihilation: Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler
Jan Philipp Reemtsma
PART I: CRIMES
Chapter 2. “Coming Along to Shoot Some Jews?”
The Destruction of the Jews in Serbia
Walter Manoschek
Chapter 3. Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and
the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941–42
Hannes Heer
Chapter 4. Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands
of the Wehrmacht
Christian Streit
Chapter 5. The Logic of the War of
Extermination: The Wehrmacht and the Anti-Partisan War
Hannes Heer
Chapter 6. Men of 20 July and the War in the
Soviet Union
Christian Gerlach
Chapter 7. Military Violence and the National
Socialist Consensus: The Wehrmacht in Greece, 1941–44
Mark Mazower
Chapter 8. Civitella della Chiana on 29 June
1944: The Reconstruction of a German “Measure”
Michael Geyer
PART II: FORMATIONS
Chapter 9. Local Headquarters Liepaja: Two
Months of German Occupation in the Summer of 1941
Margers Vestermanis
Chapter 10. On the Way to Stalingrad: The 6th
Army in 1941–42
Bernd Boll and Hans Safrian
Chapter 11. Incident at Baranivka: German
Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine,
October–December 1941
Truman Anderson
Chapter 12. Korück 582
Theo J. Schulte
Chapter 13. How Amorality Became Normality:
Reflections on the Mentality of German Soldiers on the Eastern
Front
Hannes Heer
Chapter 14. Emptying the Gaze: Framing Violence
through the Viewfinder
Bernd Hüppauf
PART III: AFTERMATH
Chapter 15. Forward Defense: The “Memorandum of
the Generals” for the Nuremberg Court
Manfred Messerschmidt
Chapter 16. Whose History Is It, Anyway? The
Wehrmacht and German Historiography
Omer Bartov
Chapter 17. The “Unblemished” Wehrmacht: The
Social History of a Myth
Klaus Naumann
Notes on Contributors
Appendix: Charts and Maps
Index of Names
Index of Locations
Hannes Heer is a historian and film director.
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