LEADER 04845nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910778182203321 005 20230617010721.0 010 $a0-674-04355-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043558 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786786 035 $a(OCoLC)647818372 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10310025 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268977 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268977 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237873 035 $a(PQKB)10199621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300034 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300034 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310025 035 $a(OCoLC)923108824 035 $a(DE-B1597)585472 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043558 035 $a(OCoLC)1294423381 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786786 100 $a20040311d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWar in the wild East$b[electronic resource] $ethe German Army and Soviet partisans /$fBen Shepherd 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01296-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Toward a War of Extermination --$t1. ?Success Comes Only through Terror?: The German Experience of AntiguerrillaWarfare --$t2. ?Jew-Bolsheviks,? Civilians, and Partisans: The Opening Phase, 1941 --$t3. Bloodshed Mushrooms: The Escalating Security Campaign, 1941 --$t4. The Rules Change: Partisan Surge and German Response, 1942 --$t5. More of the Sugar, Less of the Whip: The Battle for Popular Support, 1942 --$t6. Locusts in Field Gray: The Dead Zones Campaign, 1943 --$t7. Fear in the Forest: The War at Close Quarters, 1942 and 1943 --$tConclusion: Reap as You Sow, 1943 and 1944 --$tAppendix A. Larger Antipartisan Operations Carried Out by the 221st Security Division, December 1942? April 1943 --$tAppendix B. Atrocities Committed by the 221st Security Division?s Subordinate Units, March 1942? August 1943 --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations and Translations --$tNotes --$tBibliography of Primary Sources --$tIndex 330 $aIn Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies. Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology alone. The influence of German society, as well as of party and army, together with officers' grueling yet diverse experience of their environment and enemy, made them perceive the anti-partisan war in varied ways. Reactions ranged from extreme brutality to relative restraint; some sought less to terrorize the native population than to try to win it over. The emerging picture does not dilute the suffering the Wehrmacht's eastern war inflicted. It shows, however, that properly judging ordinary Germans' role in that war is more complicated than is indicated by either wholesale condemnation or wholesale exoneration. This valuable study offers a nuanced discussion of the diversity of behaviors within the German army, as well as providing a compelling exploration of the war and counterinsurgency operations on the eastern front. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xDestruction and pillage 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xDestruction and pillage$zSoviet Union 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1941-1944 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xDestruction and pillage. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xDestruction and pillage 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities 676 $a940.54/05/0947 700 $aShepherd$b Ben$c(Researcher on international relations)$0912469 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778182203321 996 $aWar in the wild East$93671681 997 $aUNINA