The SS Dirlewanger Brigade : the history of the Black Hunters / Christian Ingrao; translated from the French by Phoebe Green
Details the history of the Dirlewanger Brigade, an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army tasked with capturing partisan fighters, and recounts the atrocities the brigade executed and the repercussions of its actions
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| Hauptverfasser: | Ingrao, Christian (VerfasserIn) |
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| Weitere Verfasser: | Greenberg, Phoebe (ÜbersetzerIn) |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch Französisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2011] |
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| Internet: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Verlagsangaben Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Zusammenfassung: | Details the history of the Dirlewanger Brigade, an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army tasked with capturing partisan fighters, and recounts the atrocities the brigade executed and the repercussions of its actions Introduction: the Dirlewanger "moment" -- The history of a brigade -- From Berlin to Lublin -- Belarus, February 1942-July 1944 -- From Warsaw to Cottbus, August 1944-May 1945 -- The Dirlewanger case -- War as horizon -- Militancy as substitution -- Marginality and tenacity -- Consent and constraint -- A charismatic "bandit leader"? -- Between orgy and brutality -- Resistance and desertion in the Dirlewanger Division -- Poachers in the polis -- Between function and symbol -- Wild men in the polis? -- Wild men and warriors -- A hunters' war? -- Quarry and spoils -- The origins of violence -- A new war? -- Warsaw: an "urban jungle" for the black hunters? -- Slovakia: between anti-partisan action and frontline combat -- From Budapest to Cottbus: when hunters became prey -- Post-war -- The death of Oskar Dirlewanger -- The Black Hunters in the German courts: gone to ground -- In the margins of memory |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2011] |
| Beschreibung: | vi, 262 pages 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781616084042 1616084049 9781620876312 1620876310 |
