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- Title
Hitler in Vinnica.
- Authors
Hürter, Johannes; Uhl, Matthias
- Abstract
September 1942 was a culmination of the Second World War. In this month, the second German Eastern Campaign failed at decisively weakening the Soviet Union and at capturing the Caucasus oil fields needed for the successful continuation of the War. How the German Reich was supposed to face a globalised war now became an insoluble enigma. The disappointment about this operative as well as strategic development resulted in a vehement conflict between Hitler and his generals, who he blamed for the failures. A meeting protocol newly discovered in the archives of the Russian Defence Ministry presents Hitler's attitude directly for the first time. The document reveals a dictator who was running out of strategic concepts, but who simultaneously asserted his universal power of command and thereby created the prerequisites for the Wehrmacht to follow their 'Führer-Commander' into total defeat.
- Subjects
GERMANY; SOVIET Union; WORLD War II Eastern Front; HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945; MILITARY historiography; ROSSIISKII gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv; 20TH century German military history; HISTORIOGRAPHY; KEITEL, Wilhelm, 1882-1946; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2015, Vol 63, Issue 4, p581
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2015-0035