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- Title
Wehrmacht, Partisanenkrieg und Rückzugsverbrechen an der nördlichen Ostfront im Herbst und Winter 1943.
- Authors
Kilian, Jürgen
- Abstract
A lot has been written about the Wehrmacht's war of annihilation in the east, however research has concentrated mostly on the early phase. Less known are the courses of action of the conquerors after the turnaround of the war in 1943. What role did the general Orders of the supreme command play? How did the leeway of the local commanders, who represented the operational apparatus at the local level, shape things? These questions are examined via the example of the rear area of the 18th Army. Although no specific decimation of the inhabitants occurred there, nevertheless it becomes obvious that their needs were always only afforded a minor significance. In the course of the preparations for the retreat of Army Group North, mass deportations, recruitments to compulsory labour and excessive raids were finally the catalyst for the unprecedented escalation of the war against the partisans. The economic exploitation of the land now reached its quantitative culmination in the course of the “scorched earth" strategy prescribed by Hitler. The Red Army thus entered a devastated and mostly depopulated land.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; ATROCITIES in World War II; WAR crimes -- History; GERMANY. Heer; MILITARY occupation; WORLD War II -- Deportations from the Soviet Union; CIVILIAN evacuation; WORLD War II -- Occupied territories; WORLD War II; WORLD War II resistance movements; WORLD War II Eastern Front; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2013, Vol 61, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1524/vfzg.2013.0009