Hitler’s Army Audiobook Libro.fm

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In Hitlers Army Omer Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Unionwhere the vast majority of German troops foughtto show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitlers image Both brutalized and brutalizing these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman In the unprecedented ferocity and catastrophic losses of the Eastern front soldiers embraced the idea that the war was a defense of civilization against Jewish/Bolshevik barbarism a war of racial survival to be waged at all costs Bartov describes the incredible scale and destruction of the invasion of Russia in horrific detail Even in the first monthsoften depicted as a time of easy victoriesundermanned and illequipped German units were stretched to the breaking point by vast distances and bitter Soviet resistance Bartov goes on to explore letters diaries military reports and other sources showing how widespread Hitlers views became among common fighting menmen who grew up he reminds us under the Nazi regime In the end they truly became Hitlers army

This book sheds new light on how deeply Nazi ideology penetrated the nation Hitlers Army makes an important correction not merely to the historical record but to how we see the world today