Edward B Westermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward B Westermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward B |
| FAMILY NAME | Westermann |
| SIGNATURE | WESTERMANN E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University – San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crossing the Threshold of Sexual Violence
Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe . David M. Rosen
Journal Article Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe. David M. Rosen Get access Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe, David M Rosen (New York: Routledge, 2022), 125 pp., hardcover $160.00, electronic version available. Edward Westermann Edward Westermann Texas A&M University, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Gen…
The Virtuous Wehrmacht
The myth of a ‘clean Wehrmacht’ has long been exploded by evidence highlighting the German Army’s complicity in genocide—including numerous mass reprisal actions against civilians in Poland, Serbia, Greece and the Soviet Union, the massacre of captured black French colonial soldiers, and the responsibility for the deaths of over three million Soviet prisoners of war (POWs)—but the question of what motivated the Landser (infantryman) to engage in …
I.2/ Alcool, mangeailles et rituels festifs sur les sites de massacres
This article shows and explains the phenomenon of consuming food and alcohol at the sites of massacres in Eastern Europe. Outside of the death camps, researchers, and in particular Patrick Desbois, have shown that vast shooting campaigns were carried out against civil populations, which in large part were Jewish.Drawing on numerous eyewitness accounts, the author explores the festive rituals that accompanied these massacres, and specifically the …
Die deutsche Ordnungspolizei im westlichen Europa 1940–1945Wolfgang Curilla
Wolfgang Curilla’s detailed new study completes a trilogy documenting the participation of the Order Police in the destruction of European Jewry and, more generally, in the subjugation of countries under Nazi control during World War II. Curilla’s works, along with those of Stefan Klemp, record the activities of individual Order Police units in the Final Solution, and have provided a wealth of information for establishing the scale and scope of t…
B en H. S hepherd . Hitler’s Soldiers
Building upon his existing scholarship on German Army anti-partisan and occupation operations in Russia and the Balkans, Ben Shepherd provides a welcome and important addition to the literature on the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) with Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich, his comprehensive history of the German Army under National Socialism. This ambitious effort not only succeeds in covering the full range of army activities …
Drinking Rituals, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
During the Third Reich, alcohol served as both a literal and metaphorical lubricant for acts of violence and atrocity by the men of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the police. Scholars have extensively documented its use and abuse on the part of the perpetrators. For the SA, the SS, and the police, the consumption of alcohol was part of a ritual that not only bound the perpetrators together, but also became a facilitator of a…
Expeditionary police advising
The practice of dispatching teams of police advisors to other states to build or train foreign security forces began at the end of the nineteenth century, yet there exists no definitive history of the practice, or any definitive theoretical approach underpinning why such missions succeed or fail. Drawing upon their recent edited book on expeditionary police advising, and by examining the donor or sending states, the host nations, and the use of p…
Stone-Cold Killers or Drunk with Murder? Alcohol and Atrocity during the Holocaust
In many testimonies on mass murders of Jews by SS and German police units in the East, witnesses and perpetrators mention that alcohol was present or that the killers were intoxicated. In fact, it is clear from available evidence that alcohol—normally in the form of vodka or schnapps—was often available at murder sites. Despite the ubiquity of its presence, however, there has been little scholarly analysis concerning the use of alcohol or its rol…
Dachau and the SS
In the popular imagination Dachau is, after Auschwitz, perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the National Socialist concentration camp system. Indeed, films of Allied military forces liberating concentration camps in Germany in 1945 had an immediate and powerful impact on world opinion. Pictures of skeletal survivors juxtaposed with piles of human corpses stacked like cordwood in barracks or railway cars continue to serve for many as the iconic…
Blood on the Marias
The subject of massacre in the American West remains a topic of interest to contemporary historians as evidenced by a number of recent works related to acts of mass atrocity—whether at Sand Creek, on the Marias River, or at Wounded Knee Creek. Outside of academic circles, the Marias River massacre, or Baker massacre, constitutes one of the least well known of these events. To correct this deficiency, Paul R. Wylie offers a principally narrative a…
Ideologie und Moral im Nationalsozialismus
The discussion of the existence of a specific National Socialist ethic or moral philosophy forms the subject of this diverse but informative anthology edited by Wolfgang Bialas and Lothar Fritze. The volume is a compilation of papers presented at an international conference held at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden in November 2010. The work’s primary contribution to contemporary scholarly discourse is not in …
Partners in Genocide
In the Soviet Union, SS and police forces adopted the strategy of the direct approach as the keystone of German security policy in the occupied territories. Operating in conjunction with Wehrmacht units and indigenous auxiliaries, Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler's Uniformed Police (Ordnungspolizei) battalions, became essential instruments in the subjugation, exploitation, and pacification of the German rear …
Flak. German Anti-Aircraft Defenses 1914-1945
Hitting the Mark, but Missing the Target
During the course of the air campaign against the Third Reich, the Luftwaffe employed a variety of active and passive defensive measures. The overwhelming tendency to focus solely on the performance of fighters and flak provides only one piece of the air defence mosaic and has led to a widespread under-appreciation of the contributions of deception measures and the role of dummy sites within the Luftwaffe’s air defences. The dummy installations a…
Fighting for the Heavens from the Ground
The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz
Journal Article The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz: First Deliberations, January 19411 Get access Edward B. Westermann Edward B. Westermann University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 70–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/15.1.70 Published: 01 March 2001
Ordinary Men" or "Ideological Soldiers"? Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942
We police went by the phrase, 'Whatever serves the state is right, whatever harms the state is wrong.' ... it never ever entered my head that these orders could be wrong. Although I am aware that it is the duty of the police to protect the innocent I was however at that time convinced that the Jewish people were not innocent but guilty. I believed all the propaganda that Jews were criminals and subhuman.... The thought that one should oppose or e…
Himmler's Uniformed Police on the Eastern Front
The Holocaust Course at the United States Air Force Academy
The stated mission of the United States Air Force Academy is to motivate and train the future leaders of the United States Air Force, to develop knowledge as well as character. In conjunction with this objective, the Academy's Department of History provided a 42-lesson course on the genocide of the European Jews during the National Socialist dictatorship. The course addressed the moral, political, and military aspects of the Nazi program of terro…
"Friend and Helper"
Stone-Cold Killers or Drunk with Murder? Alcohol and Atrocity during the Holocaust
In many testimonies on mass murders of Jews by SS and German police units in the East, witnesses and perpetrators mention that alcohol was present or that the killers were intoxicated. In fact, it is clear from available evidence that alcohol—normally in the form of vodka or schnapps—was often available at murder sites. Despite the ubiquity of its presence, however, there has been little scholarly analysis concerning the use of alcohol or its rol…
Himmler's Uniformed Police on the Eastern Front
Drinking Rituals, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
During the Third Reich, alcohol served as both a literal and metaphorical lubricant for acts of violence and atrocity by the men of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the police. Scholars have extensively documented its use and abuse on the part of the perpetrators. For the SA, the SS, and the police, the consumption of alcohol was part of a ritual that not only bound the perpetrators together, but also became a facilitator of a…
Expeditionary police advising
The practice of dispatching teams of police advisors to other states to build or train foreign security forces began at the end of the nineteenth century, yet there exists no definitive history of the practice, or any definitive theoretical approach underpinning why such missions succeed or fail. Drawing upon their recent edited book on expeditionary police advising, and by examining the donor or sending states, the host nations, and the use of p…
Partners in Genocide
In the Soviet Union, SS and police forces adopted the strategy of the direct approach as the keystone of German security policy in the occupied territories. Operating in conjunction with Wehrmacht units and indigenous auxiliaries, Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler's Uniformed Police (Ordnungspolizei) battalions, became essential instruments in the subjugation, exploitation, and pacification of the German rear …
The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz
Journal Article The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz: First Deliberations, January 19411 Get access Edward B. Westermann Edward B. Westermann University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 70–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/15.1.70 Published: 01 March 2001
"Friend and Helper"
Himmler's Uniformed Police on the Eastern Front
The Holocaust Course at the United States Air Force Academy
The stated mission of the United States Air Force Academy is to motivate and train the future leaders of the United States Air Force, to develop knowledge as well as character. In conjunction with this objective, the Academy's Department of History provided a 42-lesson course on the genocide of the European Jews during the National Socialist dictatorship. The course addressed the moral, political, and military aspects of the Nazi program of terro…
Ordinary Men" or "Ideological Soldiers"? Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942
We police went by the phrase, 'Whatever serves the state is right, whatever harms the state is wrong.' ... it never ever entered my head that these orders could be wrong. Although I am aware that it is the duty of the police to protect the innocent I was however at that time convinced that the Jewish people were not innocent but guilty. I believed all the propaganda that Jews were criminals and subhuman.... The thought that one should oppose or e…
Fighting for the Heavens from the Ground
The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz
Journal Article The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz: First Deliberations, January 19411 Get access Edward B. Westermann Edward B. Westermann University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 70–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/15.1.70 Published: 01 March 2001
Flak. German Anti-Aircraft Defenses 1914-1945
Hitting the Mark, but Missing the Target
During the course of the air campaign against the Third Reich, the Luftwaffe employed a variety of active and passive defensive measures. The overwhelming tendency to focus solely on the performance of fighters and flak provides only one piece of the air defence mosaic and has led to a widespread under-appreciation of the contributions of deception measures and the role of dummy sites within the Luftwaffe’s air defences. The dummy installations a…
Partners in Genocide
In the Soviet Union, SS and police forces adopted the strategy of the direct approach as the keystone of German security policy in the occupied territories. Operating in conjunction with Wehrmacht units and indigenous auxiliaries, Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler's Uniformed Police (Ordnungspolizei) battalions, became essential instruments in the subjugation, exploitation, and pacification of the German rear …
Ideologie und Moral im Nationalsozialismus
The discussion of the existence of a specific National Socialist ethic or moral philosophy forms the subject of this diverse but informative anthology edited by Wolfgang Bialas and Lothar Fritze. The volume is a compilation of papers presented at an international conference held at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden in November 2010. The work’s primary contribution to contemporary scholarly discourse is not in …
Stone-Cold Killers or Drunk with Murder? Alcohol and Atrocity during the Holocaust
In many testimonies on mass murders of Jews by SS and German police units in the East, witnesses and perpetrators mention that alcohol was present or that the killers were intoxicated. In fact, it is clear from available evidence that alcohol—normally in the form of vodka or schnapps—was often available at murder sites. Despite the ubiquity of its presence, however, there has been little scholarly analysis concerning the use of alcohol or its rol…
Dachau and the SS
In the popular imagination Dachau is, after Auschwitz, perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the National Socialist concentration camp system. Indeed, films of Allied military forces liberating concentration camps in Germany in 1945 had an immediate and powerful impact on world opinion. Pictures of skeletal survivors juxtaposed with piles of human corpses stacked like cordwood in barracks or railway cars continue to serve for many as the iconic…
Blood on the Marias
The subject of massacre in the American West remains a topic of interest to contemporary historians as evidenced by a number of recent works related to acts of mass atrocity—whether at Sand Creek, on the Marias River, or at Wounded Knee Creek. Outside of academic circles, the Marias River massacre, or Baker massacre, constitutes one of the least well known of these events. To correct this deficiency, Paul R. Wylie offers a principally narrative a…
Drinking Rituals, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
During the Third Reich, alcohol served as both a literal and metaphorical lubricant for acts of violence and atrocity by the men of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the police. Scholars have extensively documented its use and abuse on the part of the perpetrators. For the SA, the SS, and the police, the consumption of alcohol was part of a ritual that not only bound the perpetrators together, but also became a facilitator of a…
Expeditionary police advising
The practice of dispatching teams of police advisors to other states to build or train foreign security forces began at the end of the nineteenth century, yet there exists no definitive history of the practice, or any definitive theoretical approach underpinning why such missions succeed or fail. Drawing upon their recent edited book on expeditionary police advising, and by examining the donor or sending states, the host nations, and the use of p…
B en H. S hepherd . Hitler’s Soldiers
Building upon his existing scholarship on German Army anti-partisan and occupation operations in Russia and the Balkans, Ben Shepherd provides a welcome and important addition to the literature on the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) with Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich, his comprehensive history of the German Army under National Socialism. This ambitious effort not only succeeds in covering the full range of army activities …
I.2/ Alcool, mangeailles et rituels festifs sur les sites de massacres
This article shows and explains the phenomenon of consuming food and alcohol at the sites of massacres in Eastern Europe. Outside of the death camps, researchers, and in particular Patrick Desbois, have shown that vast shooting campaigns were carried out against civil populations, which in large part were Jewish.Drawing on numerous eyewitness accounts, the author explores the festive rituals that accompanied these massacres, and specifically the …
Die deutsche Ordnungspolizei im westlichen Europa 1940–1945Wolfgang Curilla
Wolfgang Curilla’s detailed new study completes a trilogy documenting the participation of the Order Police in the destruction of European Jewry and, more generally, in the subjugation of countries under Nazi control during World War II. Curilla’s works, along with those of Stefan Klemp, record the activities of individual Order Police units in the Final Solution, and have provided a wealth of information for establishing the scale and scope of t…
The Virtuous Wehrmacht
The myth of a ‘clean Wehrmacht’ has long been exploded by evidence highlighting the German Army’s complicity in genocide—including numerous mass reprisal actions against civilians in Poland, Serbia, Greece and the Soviet Union, the massacre of captured black French colonial soldiers, and the responsibility for the deaths of over three million Soviet prisoners of war (POWs)—but the question of what motivated the Landser (infantryman) to engage in …
Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe . David M. Rosen
Journal Article Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe. David M. Rosen Get access Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe, David M Rosen (New York: Routledge, 2022), 125 pp., hardcover $160.00, electronic version available. Edward Westermann Edward Westermann Texas A&M University, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Gen…
Crossing the Threshold of Sexual Violence
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