Format:
X, 367 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Porträts
ISBN:
9781785279669
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1785279661
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- HalfTitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Waffen-SS
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte 1933-2023
;
Historische Darstellung
Author information:
Poulsen, Niels Bo 1968-
Author information:
Bundgård Christensen, Claus 1968-
Author information:
Smith, Peter Scharff 1971-
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