Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich, Stephen G. Fritz (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), xvii + 416 pp., cloth 35.00
Although the fate of Germany seemed sealed after the crossing of the Rhine, resistance to Anglo-American troops actually increased, especially in Franconia. SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon cobbled together every available man and boy to turn most towns in Franconia into small fortresses. Deceived by care...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 132-134 |
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| Summary: | Although the fate of Germany seemed sealed after the crossing of the Rhine, resistance to Anglo-American troops actually increased, especially in Franconia. SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon cobbled together every available man and boy to turn most towns in Franconia into small fortresses. Deceived by carefully orchestrated evidence for the threat of an “Alpine Fortress” in Austria, American commanders rushed into Bavaria to prevent its realization. Stephen Fritz does not dismiss the potential danger or criticize the American response: “Without the determined American movement to the south, German military leaders might well have sought to make a virtue of necessity and turn the redoubt into a reality” (p. 21). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcj013 |