Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Waitman Wade Beorn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 336 pp., hardcover 39.95, electronic version available

The myth that the Wehrmacht fought a “clean” war in the Soviet Union has long since been de-bunked by historians of the Second World War. Yet, as Waitman Beorn argues, while serious scholarship on the Wehrmacht's murderous actions on the Eastern Front began in the late 1970s, there is still muc...

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Main Author: Slepyan, Kenneth (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2014
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 529-532
Review of:Marching into darkness (Cambridge, Mass.; London : Harvard University Press, 2014) (Slepyan, Kenneth)
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Summary:The myth that the Wehrmacht fought a “clean” war in the Soviet Union has long since been de-bunked by historians of the Second World War. Yet, as Waitman Beorn argues, while serious scholarship on the Wehrmacht's murderous actions on the Eastern Front began in the late 1970s, there is still much we do not know about how, precisely, the German Army in the East contributed to the Holocaust. This volume seeks to fill in this gap by showing the specific nature and mechanisms of Wehrmacht complicity in the Final Solution, both as an institution and on the part of its individual soldiers. Beorn's work provides important insights into the motivations, circumstances, and processes that marked Wehrmacht participation in the Holocaust in the East.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu055