Although acknowledged as a highly professional military organization, the Wehrmacht has been traditionally exonerated of the crimes attributed to the SS during World War II. However, in this study the author shows how the relentless Nazi propaganda machine produced conscripts for Hitler's army who were fully convinced of his horrific views on ...
In "Erased", Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach - in former Eastern Galicia - carries him on a ...
Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bartov demonstrates that in the twentieth century there have been intimate links between military conflict, mass murder of civilian populations, and the definition and categorization of groups and ...
This text analyzes the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in various mediums - academic histories, literature, poetry, art, cinema and museums. It addresses such issues as how different cultures have come to terms with the Holocaust and with what effects in times of peace and war.
Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyzes the social, educational and political background of the junior officers who formed the backbone of the ...
Exploring crimes against war prisoners, Jews, and other civilians in Eastern Europe from 1939 to 1944, this book draws on newly discovered documents and photographs to reveal the mass ideological indoctrination that led soldiers of the German army to commit genocide. 500+ photos.
Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath presents a critical and important study of the Holocaust. Complete with an introduction that summarises the state of the field, this book contains major reinterpretations by leading holocaust authors along with key texts on testimony, memory, and justice after the catastrophe. Many of the pieces ...
Including original contributions from distinguished European and American historians such as Saul Friedlander, Omer Bartov, John Dower, Christopher Browning, and Marilyn Young, Crimes of War surveys wartime atrocities committed by the United States, Germany, and Japan across the twentieth century. Available now for the first time in paperback, the ...
From cinema's beginnings, the film image of the 'Jew' has closely followed the fortunes and misfortunes of Jews. Analyzing more than 70 films made in the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, East and West Germany, France, Italy, the United States, and Israel from 1920 to the 1990s, noted historian Omer Bartov ...
How do societies remember, or forget, the wartime atrocities their soldiers and citizens may have committed? In The Crimes of War leading historians explore this difficult, troubling question. Offering valuable comparative insight, the book includes original essays on the United States in Vietnam and Korea, the Germans during World War II, and the ...
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of war and genocide, not from a traditional military history perspective, but within the framework of social and cultural history. This series offers a forum for scholarly works that reflect these new approaches. Rather than a comprehensive overview, this volume offers a series of ...
Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the social, educational and political background of the junior officers who formed the backbone of ...
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