03155nam 2200637 450 991079575830332120231004190435.01-5017-6006-8978150176005110.1515/9781501760051(CKB)5600000000015018(MiAaPQ)EBC6463615(OCoLC)1240828882(MdBmJHUP)musev2_94394(DE-B1597)577358(OCoLC)1286808568(DE-B1597)9781501760051(StDuBDS)EDZ0002752794(EXLCZ)99560000000001501820220412e20222020 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe virtuous Wehrmacht crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 /David A. Harrisville[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2022.1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) illustrationsBattlegrounds. Cornell studies in military historyCornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.1-5017-6004-1 1-5017-6005-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: toward a moral history of the Wehrmacht in the war of extermination -- Honorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht -- Rationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters -- The "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa -- The "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act -- Death and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices -- Conclusion: a myth is born.'The Virtuous Wehrmacht' explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly demonstrates that this myth of innocence was created during the course of the war itself - and did not arise as a postwar whitewashing of events.Battlegrounds. Cornell studies in military history.Cornell scholarship online.World War, 1939-1945Moral and ethical aspectsGermanyWorld War, 1939-1945AtrocitiesMoral and ethical aspectsGermanyJustification (Ethics)World War, 1939-1945CampaignsEastern FrontWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsSoviet UnionWorld War, 1939-1945Moral and ethical aspectsWorld War, 1939-1945AtrocitiesMoral and ethical aspectsJustification (Ethics)World War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945Campaigns940.54/217Harrisville David A.1544914StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910795758303321The virtuous Wehrmacht3799494UNINA