The virtuous Wehrmacht : crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 / / David A. Harrisville [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Harrisville David A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 940.54/217 |
Collana |
Battlegrounds. Cornell studies in military history
Cornell scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945 - Moral and ethical aspects - Germany
World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Moral and ethical aspects - Germany Justification (Ethics) World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Eastern Front World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Soviet Union |
ISBN |
1-5017-6006-8
9781501760051 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795758303321 |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 | ||
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The virtuous Wehrmacht : crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 / / David A. Harrisville [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Harrisville David A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 940.54/217 |
Collana |
Battlegrounds. Cornell studies in military history
Cornell scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945 - Moral and ethical aspects - Germany
World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Moral and ethical aspects - Germany Justification (Ethics) World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Eastern Front World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Soviet Union |
ISBN |
1-5017-6006-8
9781501760051 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817880403321 |
Harrisville David A.
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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