Von den Besiegten lernen?. Die kriegsgeschichtliche Kooperation der U.S. Armee und der ehemaligen Wehrmachtselite 1945-1961
From 1945 to 1961, former Wehrmacht officers undertook thousands of historical studies on behalf of the US army. Shared points of view with the Americans and the advent of the Cold War enabled the German soldiers to develop a self-justifying interpretation of history that denied the German war of ex...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
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De Gruyter
2016
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| Series: | Studien zur Zeitgeschichte
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| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | From 1945 to 1961, former Wehrmacht officers undertook thousands of historical studies on behalf of the US army. Shared points of view with the Americans and the advent of the Cold War enabled the German soldiers to develop a self-justifying interpretation of history that denied the German war of extermination. The Historical Division actively contributed to the transatlantic dissemination of this myth of the clean Wehrmacht. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (398 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110415391 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110415391 |
| Access: | Open Access |