Joining Hitler's Crusade
Title | Joining Hitler's Crusade PDF eBook |
Author | David Stahel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316510344 |
A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Title | Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East PDF eBook |
Author | David Stahel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 501 |
Release | 2009-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521768470 |
This book is an important reassessment of the failure of Germany's 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union.
Hitler's Foreign Executioners
Title | Hitler's Foreign Executioners PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Hale |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 598 |
Release | 2011-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752463934 |
Reveals for the first time Heinrich Himmler's master plan for Europe: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of 'Germanic' peoples to build an 'SS Europa'. Himmler fervently believed that over many centuries, 'Germanic' blood had been 'seeded' in every corner of Europe and even parts of Asia. This book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe's dirty secret: that nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich - to fight a crusade against 'Jewish-Bolshevism'. No other historian has examined the connections between these SS 'foreign legions' (both police and Waffen-SS) and the Holocaust. Even today, some apologists claim that the foreign volunteers were merely soldiers 'like any other' and fought a decent war against Stalin's Red Army. Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. And as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmler's monstrous scheme would lead to bitter confrontations with Hitler - and the downfall of the man once known as 'loyal Heinrich'.
Kiev 1941
Title | Kiev 1941 PDF eBook |
Author | David Stahel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 485 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113950360X |
In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and, for Hitler and Stalin, a battle of crucial importance. In this book, David Stahel charts the battle's dramatic course and aftermath, uncovering the irreplaceable losses suffered by Germany's 'panzer groups' despite their battlefield gains, and the implications of these losses for the German war effort. He illuminates the inner workings of the German army as well as the experiences of ordinary soldiers, showing that with the Russian winter looming and Soviet resistance still unbroken, victory came at huge cost and confirmed the turning point in Germany's war in the East.
The German Campaign in Russia
Title | The German Campaign in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | George E. Blau |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Hitler's Holy Relics
Title | Hitler's Holy Relics PDF eBook |
Author | Sidney Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 473 |
Release | 2011-05-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1849832080 |
From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasure they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. This is the true-life Indiana Jones story of a college professor turned Army sleuth who foils a Nazi plot to preserve these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. Author Sidney Kirkpatrick draws on recently discovered and previously unpublished documents, including interrogation and intelligence reports, diaries and correspondence, as well as on interviews with all remaining living participants involved with the case, to re-create this thrilling true-life story.
Hitler's Bandit Hunters
Title | Hitler's Bandit Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Philip W. Blood |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | 761 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597974455 |
In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for "combating banditry" (Bandenbekämpfung), became the third component of the Nazi regime's three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endlösung der Judenfrage, or "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question") and slave labor (Erfassung, or "Registration of Persons to Hard Labor") being the better-known others. An original and thought-provoking work grounded in extensive research in German archives, Hitler's Bandit Hunters focuses on this counterinsurgency campaign, the anvil of Hitler's crusade for empire. Bandenbekämpfung portrayed insurgents as political and racial bandits, criminalized to a greater degree than enemies of the state; moreover, violence against them was not constrained by the prevailing laws of warfare. Philip Blood explains how German forces embraced the Bandenbekämpfung doctrine, demonstrating the equal culpability of both the SS police forces and the "heroic" Waffen-SS combat arm and shattering the contrived postwar distinctions between them. He challenges the traditional view of Himmler as an armchair general and bureaucrat, exposing him as the driving force behind one of the most successful security campaigns in history, and delves into the contentious issue of the complicity of ordinary German police, soldiers, and citizens, as well as the citizens of occupied territories, in these state-sponsored manhunts. This book provokes new debates on the Nazi terrorization of Europe, the blind acquiescence of many, and the courageous resistance of the few.