Claus Bundgård Christensen, Niels Bo Poulsen, Peter Scharff Smith

War, Genocide and Cultural Memory (eBook, ePUB)

The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785279683
• Artikelnr.: 63388455

Autorenporträt

Claus Bundgård Christensen is associate professor of history at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Niels Bo Poulsen is associate professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Military History, Culture and War at the Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Peter Scharff Smith is professor in the sociology of law at the Institute for Criminology and Sociology of Law, Oslo University.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Authors
 Foreword
 Chapter One Introduction, Part I -The Organizational and Military History of the Waffen-SS
 Chapter Two From Hitler's Bodyguard to the Waffen-SS
 Chapter Three War of Extermination
 Chapter Four Fall and Obliteration
 Part II -Ideology, Discipline and Punishment in the Waffen-SS, Chapter Five Ideological Training in the Waffen-SS
 Chapter Six Sexuality, Race and Religion: Ideology in Practise
 Chapter Seven Punishment and Discipline in the Waffen-SS: Law and Legal Practice in the Racial State
Part III -A European Nazi Army: Foreigners in the Waffen-SS, Chapter Eight Germanic and Western European Volunteers in the Waffen-SS
 Chapter Nine 'Volksdeutsche' in the Waffen-SS
 Chapter Ten Eastern European Waffen-SS Soldiers of Non-German Ethnicity
 Part IV -Soldiers and War Criminals, Chapter Eleven Waffen-SS and Nazi Crimes
 Chapter Twelve Explaining the Atrocities: Context and Motives
 Part V -Waffen-SS after 1945, Chapter Thirteen Surrender and Imprisonment
 Chapter Fourteen Prosecution and Flight
 Chapter Fifteen The Veterans Unionise
 Chapter Sixteen The Waffen-SS in Post-War Remembrance Culture
 Epilogue - The Nazi's European Soldiers
Appendix
 List of Abbreviations
 Bibliography
 Index