Abstract:In the first decades after the SecondWorldWar historical writing on the eastern front was dominated by self-serving, exculpatory memoirs by former German generals. They sang the same tune: they had no...In the first decades after the SecondWorldWar historical writing on the eastern front was dominated by self-serving, exculpatory memoirs by former German generals. They sang the same tune: they had not known, they had not seen, and they had not heard of the horrendous atrocities taking place in front of their very eyes. The course of the campaign in the SovietUnionwent something like this. Brilliant planning by the German General Staff was ruined by Hitler, who insisted on attacking everywhere, denying the German army a Schwerpunkt, or point of concentration. In the initialRead More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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