War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II

by Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann

Book Overview

Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches, the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B006IKZYWA
• ISBN13: 9781571814937
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"