Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945 : A Critical Assessment

by Muller, Rolf-Dieter; Ueberschar, Gerd R.

• ISBN13: 9781571812933
• ISBN10: 1571812938
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Gerhard L. Weinberg
Preface to First Edition	x
Preface to Second Edition	xiii
Part A: Policy and Strategy
Rolf-Dieter Muller
Introduction	1	(41)
Bibliography	42	(1)
General	42	(4)
Overview
Sources
History of Soviet-German Relations, 1933--1939	46	(2)
The Conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet Pact	48	(5)
Hitler's Program and Decision to Attack the Soviet Union, 1940--1941	53	(2)
War Policy and Strategy, 1941--1942	55	(1)
Allies and Neutrals	56	(8)
Hitler's Alliance Policy
Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Italy
Japan
Sweden
Bulgaria
Turkey
Volunteer Units
The Search for Peace, 1942--1945	64	(5)
Soviet-German Peace Feelers
The National Committee for Free Germany and the League of German Officers
The Anti-Hitler Coalition
The End of the Eastern Empire	69	(75)
Part B: The Military Campaign
Gerd R. Ueberschar
Introduction	73	(71)
Bibliography	144	(1)
General: 1941--1945	144	(13)
Bibliographies, Literature, and Research Reports
Overviews
Biographies
Sources and Contemporary Literature
Personal Accounts and Memoirs
Planning, Preparations, and Armaments for Operation Barbarossa	157	(5)
The Attack and Campaign of 1941	162	(5)
The Turning Point before the Gates of Moscow as a Result of the Winter Offensive, 1941--1942	167	(2)
The War on the Northern Front, 1941--1944: Leningrad, Volkhov, and the Polar Sea Front	169	(4)
The Wehrmacht Regains the Initiative: the Summer Offensive of 1942 (Sebastopol, Crimea)	173	(1)
The Battles of Stalingrad and the Caucasus, 1941--1943	174	(6)
From the Don to Operation Citadel: the Battles of Charkhov and Kursk, 1943	180	(2)
The Collapse of the Eastern Front in 1944 (Operation Bagration): White Russia, the Crimea, and the Southern Front	182	(1)
The Soviet Breakthrough to the Balkans and East Prussia	183	(3)
The Struggle for the Vistula and Oder and in Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, Pomerania, and Silesia	186	(2)
The Air War in the Eastern Theater	188	(2)
The Naval War in the Eastern Theater	190	(3)
The Military Use of Helper Forces and Allies by the Wehrmacht and the Red Army	193	(3)
Logistics, Weapons, Intelligence, Railways, and Communications	196	(2)
Daily Life of Civilians and Soldiers in the War (Home Front)	198	(1)
The Struggle in Courland and on the Baltic Coast, 1945	198	(1)
The Red Army Conquers Berlin and the Fighting Ends	199	(54)
Part C: The Ideologically Motivated War of Annihilation in the East
Gerd R. Ueberschar
Introduction	209	(44)
Bibliography	253	(1)
General, Overviews, and Sources	253	(2)
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and Its Participation in the War of Annihilation	255	(1)
The ``Criminal Orders'' Issued to German Forces	256	(1)
The Treatment and Fate of Soviet Prisoners of War	257	(3)
The Genocide of the Jews in the East	260	(17)
Propaganda and Reporting for the War of Annihilation in the East	277	(1)
Propaganda about Communist Class Warfare, German Prisoners of War in the USSR, and Soviet War Crimes until 1945	277	(38)
Part D: The Occupation
Rolf-Dieter Muller
Introduction	283	(32)
Bibliography	315	(1)
General	315	(3)
Bibliographies
Overviews
Sources
War Aims	318	(2)
Military Administration	320	(1)
Civilian Administration	320	(2)
Individual Regions	322	(4)
Reichskommissariat Ostland
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
Other Areas and Regions
Partisan War, Resistance, and Suppression	326	(7)
General Overviews
Baltic States
Northern Russia
White Russia
Central Russia
Southern Russia
Ukraine
Other Areas and Regions
The Recruitment of ``Hilfswillige'' and Eastern Legions	333	(1)
Economic Exploitation	334	(6)
The Recruitment of ``Ostarbeiter'' and Their Fate	340	(5)
Part E: The Results of the War and Coming to Terms with Them
Introduction	345	(1)
The Results of the War (Rolf-Dieter Muller)	345	(22)
Avoiding and Coming to Terms with the Past	367	(40)
Gerd R. Ueberschar
The Results of the War	375	(11)
Soviet Policy toward Germany and the Occupation
The Expulsion of the East German Population
The Fate and Eventual Return Home of German Prisoners of War after the End of the War
Reparations and Spoils of War
Avoiding and Coming to Terms with the Past	386	(15)
Eyewitness Accounts, Letters, and Documentary Stories
Works on Tactical Military Experience of the Soviet-German War
Literary Accounts of the War in Poetry and Novels
Coming to Terms with the Past: Apologias, Reception of Research Results, Struggles over Tradition, and the German ``Historikerstreit''
Part F: From Historical Memories to ``Bridges of Understanding'' and Reconciliation
Gerd R. Ueberschar
Conclusion	401	(3)
Bibliography	404	(3)
Bibliographical Annex	407	(28)
Policy and Strategy	407	(2)
The Military Campaign	409	(7)
The Ideologically Motivated War of Annihilation in the East	416	(9)
The Occupation	425	(2)
The Results of the War	427	(2)
Avoiding and Coming to Terms with the Past	429	(3)
Conclusion	432	(3)
Index of Names	435