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War of Annihilation
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
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Artikel-Nr:
9780742544826
Veröffentl:
2007
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.10.2007
Seiten:
196
Autor:
Geoffrey P. Megargee
Gewicht:
293 g
Format:
229x152x11 mm
Serie:
War and Society
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Geoffrey P. Megargee is the author of Inside Hitler's High Command, which won a 2001 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and was a Main Selection of the History Book Club. He is an applied research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction would result not just from military operations but also from the systematic killing and abuse that the German army, police, and SS directed against Jews, Communists, and ordinary citizens.In War of Annihilation, noted military historian Geoffrey P. Megargee provides a clear, concise history of the Germans' opening campaign of conquest and genocide in 1941. By drawing on the best of military and Holocaust scholarship, Megargee dispels the myths that have distorted the role of Germany's military leadership in both the military operations themselves and the unthinkable crimes that were part of them.
Chapter 1: The Roots of the War of AnnihilationChapter 2: Plans and Preparations, 1940-1941Chapter 3: Initial Victories and Atrocities, June to AugustChapter 4: The Second Phase: Expanding Conquests and Genocide, August to OctoberChapter 5: The Final Drive on Moscow and Systematic Killing, October to DecemberChapter 6: Failure and Its Consequences, to Early 1942ConclusionBibliographic EssayAppendix 1: The Levels of CommandAppendix 2: Principal German Army Commands and Staffs on June 22, 1941