Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich


Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov

As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But in this compelling account Omer Bartov reveals a very different history, as he probes the experience of the average soldier to show just how thoroughly Nazi ideology permeated the army.

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