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Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld, who attempted to examine the military force of the Wehrmacht in a purely military context, concluded: "The German army was a superb fighting organization.
The book was first published in German with a title that translates as The Wehrmacht: Images of the Enemy, War of Extermination, Legends.According to Benjamin Schwarz, "These works have conclusively demonstrated that the Wehrmacht—and not, as postwar accounts by German generals would have it, merely the SS—freely and even eagerly joined in murder and genocide".
Commenting on Beorn's research into Wehrmacht complicity in Nazi crimes in a 2015 review in The American Historical Review, historian Thomas Kühne calls the book, the "most convincing, the most complex, and in the English language certainly the most important to this crucial area of the Holocaust history, of military history, and of Germany ...
The German Army (German: Heer, German: ⓘ; lit. ' army ') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, [b] the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. [4]
The German armed forces kept the name Reichswehr until Adolf Hitler's 1935 proclamation of the "restoration of military sovereignty", at which point it became part of the new Wehrmacht. Although ostensibly apolitical, the Reichswehr acted as a state within a state, and its leadership was an important political power factor in the Weimar Republic.
Manfred Messerschmidt (1 October 1926 – 19 December 2022) was a German historian who specialised in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II.He was the longtime research director at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) who conceived and launched the seminal series of books Germany and the Second World War, edited by the MGFA.
Three men about to be hanged in front of a large crowd of Wehrmacht soldiers Officers of the 16th Army executing Soviet civilians, 1943. The Wehrmacht carried out war crimes across the continent including in Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union. [23] The first significant combat for the Wehrmacht was the invasion of Poland on 1 ...
Foreign volunteer battalion in the Wehrmacht.Soldiers of the Free Arabian Legion in Greece, September 1943. Spanish volunteer forces of the Blue Division entrain at San Sebastián, 1942 The Ukrainian Liberation Army's oath to Adolf Hitler Ingrian Wehrmacht volunteers of the 664th Eastern Battalion, 1943