Bastiaan Willems

Violence in Defeat (eBook, ePUB)

The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Konigsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht's retreat into Germany, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset, developed on the Eastern Front, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108846073
• Artikelnr.: 62746371

Autorenporträt

Bastiaan Willems is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Modern European History at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Chronology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Regionality and Total War in East Prussia
2. Eastern Front Battles on German Soil
3. The City as a Fortress-Community
4. Redefining Königsberg: Historical Continuity in Practice
5. The Evacuation of East Prussia
6. Königsberg as a Community of Violence
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.