War of Extermination The German Military in World War Ii, 1941-1944

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, was entirely the work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most important contributions by distinguished historians who have thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth.Heer, Hannes is the author of 'War of Extermination The German Military in World War Ii, 1941-1944', published 2000 under ISBN 9781571812322 and ISBN 1571812326.