Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front : The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944 - Jeff Rutherford

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Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front

The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944

By: Jeff Rutherford

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Paperback | 10 July 2014

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By 1944, the overwhelming majority of the German Army had participated in the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and historians continue to debate the motivations behind the violence unleashed in the east. Jeff Rutherford offers an important new contribution to this debate through a study of combat and the occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. He shows that while Nazi racial ideology provided a legitimizing context in which violence was not only accepted but encouraged, it was the Wehrmacht's adherence to a doctrine of military necessity which is critical in explaining why German soldiers fought as they did. This meant that the German Army would do whatever was necessary to emerge victorious on the battlefield. Periods of brutality were intermixed with conciliation as the army's view and treatment of the civilian population evolved based on its appreciation of the larger context of war in the east.

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'There can be no doubt that Rutherford's concept of 'military necessity' is a great stride forward in our knowledge of the Wehrmacht's Modus operandi in the east. Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front is one of the most important books on the Wehrmacht to appear in the last twenty years and a must read for both the German military campaign as well as its war of annihilation.' David Stahel, author of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 (2012)

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