Von den Besiegten lernen?. Die kriegsgeschichtliche Kooperation der U.S. Armee und der ehemaligen Wehrmachtselite 1945-1961

• Main Author: Howell, Esther-Julia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: De Gruyter 2016
• Series: Studien zur Zeitgeschichte
• Subjects: military history; Cold War; German-American relations; Second World War
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...