War, genocide and cultural memory : the Waffen-SS, 1933 to today / Claus Bundgård Christensen, Niels Bo Poulsen and Peter Scharff Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christensen, Claus Bundgård, 1968- author.

Poulsen, Niels Bo, 1968- author.

Smith, Peter Scharff, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waffen-SS.

World War, 1939-1945--Germany.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 367 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2023.

Summary:

This text presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of five years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.

Contents:

Cover

HalfTitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Chapter One Introduction

Part I - The Organizational and Military History of the Waffen-SS

Chapter Two From Hitler's Bodyguard to the Waffen-SS

Chapter Three War of Extermination

Chapter Four Fall and Obliteration

Part II - Ideology, Discipline and Punishment in the Waffen-SS

Chapter Five Ideological Training in the Waffen-SS

Chapter Six Sexuality, Race and Religion: Ideology in Practise

Chapter Seven Punishment and Discipline in the Waffen-SS: Law and Legal Practice in the Racial State

Part III - A European Nazi Army: Foreigners in the Waffen-SS

Chapter Eight Germanic and Western European Volunteers in the Waffen-SS

Chapter Nine 'Volksdeutsche' in the Waffen-SS

Chapter Ten Eastern European Waffen-SS Soldiers of Non-German Ethnicity

Part IV - Soldiers and War Criminals

Chapter Eleven Waffen-SS and Nazi Crimes

Chapter Twelve Explaining the Atrocities: Context and Motives

Part V - Waffen-SS after 1945

Chapter Thirteen Surrender and Imprisonment

Chapter Fourteen Prosecution and Flight

Chapter Fifteen The Veterans Unionise

Chapter Sixteen The Waffen-SS in Post-War Remembrance Culture

Epilogue - The Nazi's European Soldiers

Appendix

List of Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).

ISBN:

9781785279676

178527967X

9781785279683

1785279688

OCLC:

1348482089