Why read The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia, 1941-45?

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Whereas it is now generally accepted that the Wehrmacht leadership became deeply implicated in Nazi war crimes and atrocities in occupied Soviet Russia during the Second World War, little is known about the responses of the lower ranks to these policies. This study of two rear areas examines these responses…

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1 author picked The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia, 1941-45 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Antonio J. Muñoz

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Professor Theo J. Schulte has written a well-documented, well researched study of the Ostheer (German Army in the East) covering the Russian campaign.

I loved this book because, like almost all of the recommendations that I have listed, it is a single volume with a concise yet thorough enough study of the German Army and its connection to the Genocide and Democide in the Soviet Union.

The book taught me that there was a reason why, during the war, out of the approximately twenty-five million Soviet citizens who died in the war, thirteen million were civilians. The reason, Schulte points…

From Antonio's list on the Holocaust and the Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe.