The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military Bryce Sait
In June 1939 the Wehrmacht hosted a “Summer Course for Officers” in the Bavarian resort town of Bad Tölz during which lower and mid-ranking officers received instruction concerning “National Socialism’s world-view and goals.” In addition to lectures on “Race and Population Policy,” “Race and Lebensr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 111-113 |
| Review of: | The indoctrination of the Wehrmacht (New York : Berghahn, 2019) (Crim, Brian E.)
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| Summary: | In June 1939 the Wehrmacht hosted a “Summer Course for Officers” in the Bavarian resort town of Bad Tölz during which lower and mid-ranking officers received instruction concerning “National Socialism’s world-view and goals.” In addition to lectures on “Race and Population Policy,” “Race and Lebensraum,” and geopolitical topics, the officers took a trip to Eglfing, the site of a hospital for the physically and mentally disabled. After a lecture entitled “The Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring,” the tour culminated in “the patients being … paraded before the officers in order for them to observe the mentally disabled up close” (p. 65). This disturbing anecdote buried in the Wehrmacht’s training files is just one of many Bryce Sait cites in his contribution. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa008 |