Hawks, Doves and Tote Zonen
A Wehrmacht Security Division in Central Russia, 1943
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10076345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Shepherd (0000-0002-5598-521X, Department of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 349-369 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220094020370030201 |
| OpenAlex | W2053897834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
There is a long-standing historiographical consensus over the crimes perpetrated by the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) in the Third Reich, particularly during the devastating eastern campaign against the Soviet Union. This campaign saw mass brutality born of nazi ideology, military ruthlessness and cold economic calculation. Only relatively recently, however, has a literature begun to emerge which seeks to quantify and explain the diversity of conduct as practised by Wehrmacht units in the field. This article contributes to the emerging literature with a comparative case study of a Wehrmacht security division, a unit which fought in one of the eastern campaign's bloodiest settings, the anti-partisan campaign. It shows how diverse conduct, ranging from extreme ruthlessness to relative restraint, was shaped by an interaction of wider influences, conditions in the field and the perceptions of particular officers
Arithmetic · Division (mathematics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · German History and Society · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2012 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |