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Author:   Jochen Böhler (Research Associate, Research Associate, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena) ,  Robert Gerwarth (Director, Director, UCD Centre for War Studies)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.762kg
ISBN:  

9780198790556

ISBN 10:   0198790554
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   22 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1: Jochen Böhler and Robert Gerwarth: Non-Germans in the Waffen-SS: An Introduction 2: Peter Black and Martin Gutmann: Racial Theory and Realities of Conquest in the Occupied East: The Nazi Leadership and Non-German Nationals in the SS and Police 3: Claus Bundgård Christensen, Niels Bo Poulsen, and Peter Scharff Smith: Germanic Volunteers from Northern Europe 4: Georgios Antoniou, Philippe Carrard, Stratos Dordanas, Carlo Gentile, Christopher Hale, and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas: Western and Southern Europe: The Cases of Spain, France, Italy, and Greece 5: Matthew Kott, Arunas Bubnys, and Ülle Kraft: The Baltic States: Auxiliaries and Waffen-SS soldiers from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 6: Jacek Andrzej Mlynarczyk, Leonid Rein, Andrii Bolianovskyi, and Oleg Romanko: The Special Cases of Eastern Europe: The Polish Blue Police, Auxiliaries, and SS Formations 7: Thomas Casagrande, Michal Schvarc, Norbert Spannenberger, and Otmar Trasca: The ""Volksdeutsche"": A Case Study from South-Eastern Europe 8: Xavier Bougarel, Alexander Korb, Stefan Petke, and Franziska Zaugg: Muslim SS Units in the Balkans and the Soviet Union 9: Immo Rebitschek, Gerald Steinacher, Mats Deland, Sabina Ferhadbegovic, and Frank Seberechts: Prosecution and Trajectories after 1945 10: Steffen Werther and Madeleine Hurd: Waffen-SS Veterans and their Sites of Memory Today"

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This valuable collection of essays is the first comprehensive analysis of one of World War II's most important and woefully neglected aspects: The creation of a murderous European army within the ranks of Himmler's Waffen-SS. These European soldiers, many of them volunteers, were recruited not only from Germanic nations but increasingly from all over Europe. They fought and died for Hitler and, after the war, were largely forgotten. Since the fall of communism their memory has been resurrected, often as defenders of European civilization against Bolshevism and as national martyrs. This excellent book, which carefully reconstructs their story and debunks their myths, will be essential reading for all students of World War II and its long aftermath. Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University Focusing on a crucial group of Nazi collaborators, the volunteers and recruits of Himmler's Waffen SS, this volume is the first to comprehensively examine the variety of non-German accomplices from literally all parts of continental Europe - a milestone of historical research and a must-read for any student of the Nazi empire and of modern European history. Thomas Kuhne, Strassler Professor of Holocaust History, Clark University

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Jochen Böhler is a Research Associate at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg in Jena, where he teaches courses on the history of early twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. His recent major publications include: War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland (2014, with Jurgen Matthäus and Klaus-Michael Mallmann) SS-Oberscharführer Hermann Baltruschat's Career 1939-1943 (2014, with Jacek Sawicki) and Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's First World War (2014, with Joachim von Puttkamer and W?odzimierz Borodziej). He is also currently preparing a monograph on Embattled Poland 1918-1921 for Oxford University Press. Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of the Centre for War Studies. He is the author of The Bismarck Myth (2005) and a biography of Reinhard Heydrich (2011). His third monograph, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End will be published in late 2016. He has also published ten edited collections, including, most recently, War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (2012, with John Horne) and Empires at War, 1911-1923 (2014, with Erez Manela).

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