Life and Death in the Demiansk Pocket
The 123rd Infantry Division in Combat and Occupation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Rutherford (0000-0003-1666-4162, Wheeling Jesuit University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-380 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938908000551 |
| OpenAlex | W2118389359 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
During the past two decades, focus on the German-Soviet war has shifted from a nearly exclusive fascination with field marshals and their battles—“chaps and maps”—to one more concerned with the social aspects of the war. Issues of resistance and collaboration, German occupation policies and everyday life under Nazi rule, and the Soviet Union's recovery from the catastrophe of 1941 and its subsequent unprecedented mobilization during the latter stages of the war now constitute the main emphases of research. Many of these new lines of investigation revolve around the implementation and results of the German Vernichtungskrieg , the war of annihilation carried out by the Wehrmacht, SS, and myriad other German agencies against the Soviet state and population. As the army was the largest and most powerful German institution operating in the Soviet Union, it has recently attracted the most attention and generated the most controversy. Historians have reached a rough consensus concerning the German High Command's complicity in implementing the Vernichtungskrieg; here, the set of orders commonly referred to in the literature as the “criminal orders” illustrate the army's means of achieving Hitler's goals. More recently, scholars have begun to investigate the army's responsibility for starving millions of Soviet civilians. While some dissenting voices have been heard, it is clear that the German High Command willingly and even enthusiastically participated in the war of annihilation
Complicity · German · Militarism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · World War II · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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