Hitler's Wehrmacht: German Armed Forces in Support of the Fuhrer

ISBN-13: 9780786475056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str.

James Steiner

Opis

On August 2, 1934, Hitler required all members of Germany's re-emerging military to take an oath of allegiance to his regime. As the war progressed and Hitler's commands became more erratic and less humanitarian, this left his more conscientious generals in a moral predicament--to live up to their oath and follow the questionable commands of the Fuhrer or violate their oath and, consequently, one of their most basic beliefs. Through a critical examination of memoirs, postwar trial testimony and peer analysis, this volume explores the motivation behind the Wehrmacht leadership's support of Hitler and his geopolitical agenda.