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Soldiers of Barbarossa
Combat, Genocide, and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June–December 1941
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Soldiers of Barbarossa
Combat, Genocide, and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June–December 1941
About this book
The scope and scale of Operation Barbarossa—the German invasion of the Soviet Union—make it one of the pivotal events of the Second World War. Yet our understanding of both the military campaign as well as the "war of annihilation" conducted throughout the occupied territories depends overwhelmingly on "top-down" studies. The three million German soldiers who crossed the Soviet border and experienced this war are seldom the focus and are often entirely ignored. Who were these men and how did they see these events? Luther and Stahel, two of the leading experts on Operation Barbarossa, have reconstructed the 1941 campaign entirely through the letters (as well as a few diaries) of more than 200 German soldiers across all areas of the Eastern Front. It is an original perspective on the campaign, one of constant combat, desperate fear, bitter loss, and endless exertions. One learns the importance of comradeship and military training, but also reads the frightening racial and ideological justifications for the war and its violence, which at times lead to unrelenting cruelty and even mass murder. Soldiers of Barbarossa is a unique and sobering account of 1941, which includes hundreds of endnotes by Luther and Stahel providing critical context, corrections, and commentary.
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Table of contents
- Map: Operation Barbarossa, 22 June–5 December 1941
- Map: Operation Typhoon, 2 October–5 December 1941
- Notes on Style
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Operation Barbarossa in the Letters of German Soldiers
- 2 June 1941
- 3 July 1941
- 4 August 1941
- Photo Essay: Summer 1941
- 5 September 1941
- 6 October 1941
- 7 November 1941
- Photo Essay: Fall 1941
- 8 December 1941
- Appendix 1. Equivalent Military Ranks (German/American)
- Appendix 2. Order of Battle of Germany’s Eastern Army (Ostheer) (22 June 1941)
- Appendix 3. Order of Battle of German Army Group Center (2 October 1941)
- Appendix 4. Soldiers of Barbarossa—Names, Ranks, and Units of German Soldiers Whose Field Post Letters and Diary Entries Are Cited in the Narrative
- Notes
- Bibliography