Wehrmacht

believed that the Wehrmacht had nothing to do with Hitler and Nazi ideology, instead they believed that the soldiers were doing their job. Many historians also believed that the Wehrmacht used to be a regular army distinct from the SS. Throughout the book, Hitler’s Army, Omer Bartov examines the question, was the Wehrmacht Hitler’s Army? Bartov addresses to what extent did propaganda and Nazi ideology serve as a driving force for the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front. While the Wehrmacht was…

that many transportation accidents could have been avoided with pervitin. Ranke appears to be against using pervitin, but the Wehrmacht promptly dismissed Ranke’s warning about soldiers looking sunken cheek, grey and ill after using pervitin. Despite his personal objection, he supports the Wehrmacht’s use of pervitin and trains the medical officers on its use. The Wehrmacht wanted to put this wonder drug to a real…

made for the generation that served during World War 2. The movie shows the more human side of the Wehrmacht. Spoken Primarily in German with optional action oriented subtitles and splashes of other eastern European languages. Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter destroys the “us vs them” black and white visions of WW2 showing various shades of grey from light to dark. No longer are the Nazi Germany Wehrmacht soldiers instruments of war but men and women with emotions and families. Generation War is a…

communism, eliminate the Soviet Unions as a military power and capture strategic resources needed to defeat Germany’s remaining rivals. “If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must finish this war. — Adolf Hitler” On 22 June 1941, the Wehrmacht (The Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany) supported by Italy, Hungary and Romania began their invasion. In the beginning, the Germans succeeded in occupying important economic territories primarily in Ukraine. However, the German offensive…

foreign policy was the meticulous instigator for the reason he was coerced into extemporising Operation Barbarossa, and invading Stalingrad. Germany’s exponentially mounting catalogue of enemies were diminishing the strength of its army, as the Wehrmacht were inept in separating the Allied forces. In addition, Hitler witnessed how ephemerally his Reich’s socio-political war had consumed its fuel. Accordingly, he set the German forces toward the south of Stalingrad so that Germany may be able to…

On April 20th, 1889, a man was born in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. That man came to be known as Adolf Hitler. When he was three, he moved from his hometown in Austria-Hungary to Germany. As a child, he had an interest in becoming an artist. He also became obsessed with German nationalist ideas, despising the declining House of Habsburg. However, when his younger brother died in 1900, he became increasingly detached. After his father’s death, his mother permitted him to drop out…

Werner grows up looking for a way to elude his predestination of becoming a miner. He decides the best way to do this is use his vast knowledge of radios and join the Wehrmacht. Ones he begins his studies the Nazi and school officials quickly strip the young Werner of his innocence. But why do the Nazi 's ruin these people 's lives? The Nazi 's believe that they should be more powerful, that they should have more influence…

Unethical research has no meaning for its purpose. Why conduct an experiment with no means to have progress as an outcome. For over nearly 50 years there has been raised eyebrows about whether not someone could use information gained from Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims. This unethical research experiment is portrayed in The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments. These victims were captured Russian soldiers (the Nazis wondered whether their genetics gave them superior resistance to…

called the Wehrmacht in 1935 and re-armed Germany after the backlash of the Treaty of Versailles. Adding 500,000 extra troops in the first year, the Wehrmacht was made up of an army, navy, and air force to bombard the enemy before they would know what was happening. This new style of attack was a big step up from WWI because it helped Germany go on the attack rather than stay on defense and go into stalemate as it did with trench warfare in WWI. Shortly after it was created, the Wehrmacht took…

Panzerfaust, which occurred on 15 October 1944 and the German transports of Hungarian Jews from Budapest. Faupel was the author of several well-known photographs of both events. There is no information about what orders the Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces Propaganda Company - PK) photographers were given. There are many images recording what was being done to the Jews - except the actual killing in the death camps. It is unclear just what was planned to do with those images…