LEADER 03965nam 2200685 450 001 9910456381703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-00333-X 010 $a9786612003332 010 $a1-4426-8328-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442683280 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004544 035 $a(OCoLC)288094770 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218652 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000313084 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313084 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10332080 035 $a(PQKB)10727112 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00211054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254748 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672245 035 $a(DE-B1597)465109 035 $a(OCoLC)944177239 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442683280 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672245 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257919 035 $a(OCoLC)958514337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004544 100 $a20160923h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWerwolf! $ethe history of the National Socialist guerrilla movement, 1944-1946 /$fPerry Biddiscombe 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1998. 210 4$d©1998 215 $a1 online resource (484 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-0862-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tForeign Terms and Abbreviations -- $tAbbildungen -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Gothic Guerrillas: The Bureau ?Prützmann? and the SS-Werwolf -- $t2 A Nursery Tale: The Hitler Youth and the Werwolf -- $t3 A Werwolf War: The Military and the Kleinkrieg -- $t4 Reign of Terror: The Party and the Werwolf -- $t5 Werwolf Redoubts -- $t6 The Werwolf along Germany's Periphery -- $t7 Western Allied and Soviet Reactions to the Werwolf -- $t8 Consequences and Significance of the Werwolf -- $tAPPENDIX A: The Werwolf as a Research Problem: A Historiographical Essay -- $tAPPENDIX B: Charts and Tables -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIllustration Sources and Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aNear the end of the Second World War, a National Socialist resistance movement, known as the Werwolf, flickered briefly to life in Germany and its borderlands. Dedicated to delaying the advance of the Allies on both fronts, the Werwolf succeeded in scattered acts of sabotage and violence. By the spring of 1945, it also showed signs of becoming a vengeful Nazi reaction against the German populace itself. 'Collaborators' and 'defeatists' were frequently assassinated, and crude posters warned that certain death would follow any failure to resist the enemy. Werwolf violence failed to mobilize a spirit of national resistance. Biddiscombe argues that the group was poorly led, armed, and organized, and that it was doomed to failure given the war-weariness of the populace and the hesitancy of young Germans to sacrifice themselves on the funeral pyre of the regime. He also demonstrates that although the group failed to assume a popular character, its influence was still great and its revolutionary sentiments would have grave implications for the future. Werwolf! is the most complete history to date of the Nazi partisan movement. It will be of great interest to general readers as well as to military historians. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zGermany 606 $aGuerrilla warfare 606 $aSabotage$zGermany 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aGuerrilla warfare. 615 0$aSabotage 676 $a940.54/8743 700 $aBiddiscombe$b Alexander Perry$f1959-$01048823 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456381703321 996 $aWerwolf$92477361 997 $aUNINA