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Germany's 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to an insurgency as bloody as any in World War II. The Wehrmacht waged a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in response, and by 1943 German troops in Yugoslavia were engaged in operations that ranked among the largest of the entire European war. Their actions encompassed massive reprisal shootings, the destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile operations unleashed not just against insurgents but also against the civilian population believed to be aiding them. Terror in the Balkans explores the reasons behind the Wehrmacht's extreme security measures in southern and eastern Europe.Ben Shepherd focuses his study not on the high-ranking generals who oversaw the campaign but on lower-level units and their officers, a disproportionate number of whom were of Austrian origin. He uses Austro-Hungarian army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range of midlevel commanders and their units conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia, and why. Shepherd concludes that the Wehrmacht campaign's violence was driven not just by National Socialist ideology but also by experience of the fratricidal infighting of Yugoslavia's ethnic groups, by conditions on the ground, and by doctrines that had shaped the military mindsets of both Germany and Austria since the late nineteenth century. He also considers why different Wehrmacht units exhibited different degrees of ruthlessness and restraint during the campaign.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Underground movements --- Germany. --- History --- Yugoslavia --- Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870).

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Wehrmacht in der NS-Diktatur Über die Wehrmacht im Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Sowjetunion ist viel geschrieben und gestritten worden. Jedoch wusste man bisher wenig über jene höchsten Generale, die das deutsche Heer auf Befehl Hitlers nach Osten führten, unter ihnen so bekannte Namen wie Bock, Guderian, Kluge, Manstein und Rundstedt. Was dachten und wie handelten die Oberbefehlshaber der Heeresgruppen und Armeen, die über Leben und Tod von vielen Millionen Soldaten und Zivilisten zu entscheiden hatten? Johannes Hürter zeichnet erstmals ein genaues Porträt dieser militärischen Elite und darüber hinaus das Panorama eines beispiellosen Feldzugs, in dem traditionelles "Kriegshandwerk" und nationalsozialistischer Rassenwahn eine unheilvolle Verbindung eingingen.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Generals --- Campaigns --- History --- Germany. --- Armed Forces --- Operation Barbarossa, 1941 --- Officers --- Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870).

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Polemology --- anno 1910-1919 --- Ypres --- Ypres, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914 --- Ieper, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914 --- Ypres, 1st Battle of, 1914 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Germany. --- Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870). --- History

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Truppenführung, the twentieth-century equivalent of Sun Tzu's Art of War, served as the basic manual for the German army from 1934 to the end of World War II. This astonishing document provided the doctrinal framework for blitzkrieg and, as a consequence, for the victories of Hitler's armies. Rather than giving German military leaders a "cookbook" on how to win battles, Truppenführung offered instead a set of intellectual tools to be applied to complex and continually changing battle conditions. The keys to understanding the psychology, philosophy, and social values of the German army that fought World War II are to be found here. This first complete English-language translation is annotated to help the contemporary reader understand its military and social context.

Military doctrine --- Command of troops --- Tactics --- Operational art (Military science) --- Operational level of war --- Strategy --- Military tactics --- Military art and science --- Leadership, Military --- Military leadership --- Troops, Command of --- Leadership --- Doctrine, Military --- Military policy --- Germany. --- Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870).

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A comparative biographical study of four leading German Panzer generals in the Second World War. Using the private wartime correspondence of Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt, David Stahel sheds new light on their private lives and public personas, their leadership at the front and their culpability in Nazi criminality.

Generals --- Nazis --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Regimental histories --- Tank warfare. --- Guderian, Heinz, --- Reinhardt, Georg-Hans, --- Reinhardt, Hans, --- Reinhardt, Hans-Georg, --- Hoepner, Erich. --- Schmidt, Rudolf. --- Germany. --- Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870).