The Wehrmacht and National Socialist Military Thinking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12309532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Stahel (0000-0003-1225-8220, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 336-361 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | War in History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-3445 • E-ISSN: 1477-0385 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0968344515614049 |
| OpenAlex | W2659961149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article argues that Nazi ideology had a profound impact upon the German officer corps in the Second World War not just for their well-established complicity in criminal activity, but also in their approach to warfare. This article demonstrates that Nazi ideology radicalized pre-existing notions of the German military ethos and conceptions of war, leading to an often irrational world view in which impractical, and even impossible, military undertakings could be ‘rationally’ explained, accepted, and understood. At the same time, seventy years after the war, a National Socialist influence upon German military thinking has seldom been discussed in the proliferation of Anglo-American operational histories
Complicity · Ethos · German · Ideology · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Total war · World War II · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |