TY - BOOK ID - 117917794 TI - The virtuous Wehrmacht : crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 PY - 2022 SN - 1501760068 9781501760051 9781501760068 150176005X 9781501760044 1501760041 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Justification (Ethics) KW - Ethics KW - Operation Barbarossa, 1941 KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Campaigns KW - Atrocities KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - ethics and the Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht crimes, the clean Wehrmacht myth, how soldiers explain their crimes, wehrmacht and nazi ideology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117917794 AB - 'The Virtuous Wehrmacht' explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly demonstrates that this myth of innocence was created during the course of the war itself - and did not arise as a postwar whitewashing of events. ER -