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Auteur(s) : Pasher, Yaron
Titre(s) : Holocaust versus Wehrmacht [Texte imprimé] : how Hitler's "Final Solution" undermined the German war effort / Yaron Pasher
Publication : Lawrence : University press of Kansas, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-364 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Modern war studies
Lien à la collection : Modern war studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union,
Hitler's other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.
What began with organized executions carried out by the Einzatsgruppen evolved into
systematic genocide, reaching its frenzied final moments just as the Wehrmacht was
meeting defeat on the military front. These campaigns--and Germany's failure--were
inextricably linked, Yaron Pasher tells us in Holocaust versus Wehrmacht. Pasher argues,
in fact, that the major share of the logistical problems faced by the Wehrmacht during
World War II stemmed from Hitler's obsession with securing the resources--especially
from the Reichsbahn railway--needed to implement the "Final Solution." To a degree
never fully recognized or understood, Hitler's anti-Semitic ideology was his war's
undoing. Through four major Wehrmacht military campaigns--Moscow, Stalingrad, and
Kursk in the east and Normandy in the west--Pasher explores this fatal contradiction
in Hitler's efforts to dominate the European continent. As Operation Typhoon, the
sequel to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, got underway in November 1941,
organized train transports began carrying Jews to the East--with the last trains taking
Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz just as the Allies invaded Western Europe and moved inexorably
to encircle the Third Reich. In these years, this book shows us, the trains transporting
Jews could have carried men, machines, and fuel to depleted and trapped divisions
in the Caucasus, and later, to the Western Front. As the Germans moved deeper into
Soviet territory, they became increasingly dependent on train transport--which entailed
converting Soviet railway line to German specifications; and yet, however successfully
this conversion was completed, the trains that might run on these rails were working
elsewhere in service of the Final Solution, leaving the Wehrmacht's overextended armies
without the resources to survive, let alone win, their final battles. In the end,
what Hitler called "the Jewish problem" was his downfall. In documenting the distribution
of Germany's resources and operational capabilities through four major campaigns,
Holocaust versus Wehrmacht offers a clear picture of the Nazis' military objectives
as inseparable from--and finally, fatally susceptible to--Hitler's and his henchmen's
other, ideological war to rid Europe of Jews" ; "Pasher argues that a major share
of the logistical problems confronting the German army throughout their military campaigns
in World War II stemmed from Hitler's obsession with implementing the "Final Solution"--i.e.,
the forced removal and eradication of Europe's Jews. Pasher persuasively makes the
case that the resources for that ideological enterprise clearly undermined the Wehrmacht's
efforts to achieve its military objectives."
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Opérations militaires -- URSS
Shoah -- Europe de l'Est
Allemagne (1871-1945). Wehrmacht
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780700620067 (hardback). - ISBN 0700620060 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443815046
Notice n° :
FRBNF44381504
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