Violence In Defeat The Wehrmacht On German Soil 1944 1945 1st Edition by Bastiaan Willems 1108846073 9781108846073

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ISBN-10 :  1108846073 

ISBN-13 :  9781108846073

Author:  Bastiaan Willems 

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht’s retreat into Germany, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset, developed on the Eastern Front, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany.

Violence In Defeat The Wehrmacht On German Soil 1944 1945 1st Table of contents:

1 Regionality and Total War in East Prussia
Introduction
East Prussia’s Path to 1945
Total War in East Prussia
Visions of the East Prussian Community in Late 1944
Conclusion
2 Eastern Front Battles on German Soil
Introduction
The ‘Heart Rate’ of the Eastern Front Soldier
The Changing Perception of Civilians
The Soldiers’ Perception of East Prussia
Conclusion
3 The City As a Fortress Community
Introduction
Cities at Total War
Cities As ‘Fortresses’: Conjecture and Strategy
The Struggle for Final Authority in Germany’s Defence
Towards a New Community
Conclusion
4 Redefining Königsberg: Historical Continuity in Practice
Introduction
Towards a Closer Collaboration
Abandoning the Greater Good
The Search for Continuity
Losing Faith in the Führer
The NSFO and the Mundpropaganda
Atrocity Propaganda
Conclusion
5 The Evacuation of East Prussia
Introduction
Considering the Evacuation of East Prussia
Evacuation and the German Soldier
East Prussian Refugees Within German Defensive Warfare
Evacuation Policy in Königsberg
The Inability to Surrender
Conclusion
6 Königsberg as a Community of Violence
Introduction
Military Law in the War Years
Upholding Military Law in Königsberg
Königsberg under Siege
Festungsdienst in Königsberg
The Volkssturm in Königsberg
Radicalisation Through the Pretext of Law

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