Operation Barbarossa : Nazi Germany's war in the east, 1941 - 1945 / Christian Hartmann
"The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep scars that it left behind. The invasion of the Soviet Union was the conflict that Hitler had always ultimately planned for...
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| Main Authors: | Hartmann, Christian (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Hartmann, Christian |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
| Edition: | 1. publ |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Table of Contents |
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| IntroductionPolitics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940; Hitler's ideology and strategy; The monstrous scheme: a Greater Germanic empire; Stalin's ideology and strategy |
| The Eve of War. The invaders; Allies; The Soviet Union's land and people; The defenders |
| War 1941-1942. The war from above: overview; 1941: the German invasion; 1942: the second German offensive; The war from below: soldiers and civilians |
| The German Occupation. Organization; Between collaboration and resistance: Soviet society under the occupation; Stateless spaces: the erosion of German power |
| German War Crimes and Atrocities. Jews; Prisoners of war; Partisans; Leningrad; Economic exploitation; Scorched earth |
| Politics 1941-1945. German foreign policy; Soviet foreign policy; The mobilization of Soviet society; The other side of the coin: Soviet war crimes and atrocities 1939-1945 |
| War 1943-1945. 1943: the turn of the tide; 1944: the collapse of the Eastern Front; 1945: the Soviet victory; A military reckoning |
| Aftermath. The endpoint: Europe in May 1945; The outcome |
| Chronology of events |
| Further reading |
| Photographic acknowledgements. |
