Hitler's Bandit Hunters

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War II
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Author: Philip W. Blood ISBN: 9781597974455
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. Publication: October 31, 2006
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc. Language: English
Author: Philip W. Blood
ISBN: 9781597974455
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Publication: October 31, 2006
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc.
Language: English
In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for ôcombating banditryö (Bandenbek?mpfung), became the third component of the Nazi regimeÆs three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endl?sung der Judenfrage, or ôthe Final Solution of the Jewish Questionö) and slave labor (Erfassung, or ôRegistration of Persons to Hard Laborö) being the better-known others.

An original and thought-provoking work grounded in extensive research in German archives, HitlerÆs Bandit Hunters focuses on this counterinsurgency campaign, the anvil of HitlerÆs crusade for empire. Bandenbek?mpfung portrayed insurgents as political and racial bandits, criminalized to a greater degree than enemies of the state; moreover, violence against them was not constrained by the prevailing laws of warfare.

Philip Blood explains how German forces embraced the Bandenbek?mpfung doctrine, demonstrating the equal culpability of both the SS police forces and the ôheroicö Waffen-SS combat arm and shattering the contrived postwar distinctions between them. He challenges the traditional view of Himmler as an armchair general and bureaucrat, exposing him as the driving force behind one of the most successful security campaigns in history, and delves into the contentious issue of the complicity of ordinary German police, soldiers, and citizens, as well as the citizens of occupied territories, in these state-sponsored manhunts. This book provokes new debates on the Nazi terrorization of Europe, the blind acquiescence of many, and the courageous resistance of the few.
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In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for ôcombating banditryö (Bandenbek?mpfung), became the third component of the Nazi regimeÆs three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endl?sung der Judenfrage, or ôthe Final Solution of the Jewish Questionö) and slave labor (Erfassung, or ôRegistration of Persons to Hard Laborö) being the better-known others.

An original and thought-provoking work grounded in extensive research in German archives, HitlerÆs Bandit Hunters focuses on this counterinsurgency campaign, the anvil of HitlerÆs crusade for empire. Bandenbek?mpfung portrayed insurgents as political and racial bandits, criminalized to a greater degree than enemies of the state; moreover, violence against them was not constrained by the prevailing laws of warfare.

Philip Blood explains how German forces embraced the Bandenbek?mpfung doctrine, demonstrating the equal culpability of both the SS police forces and the ôheroicö Waffen-SS combat arm and shattering the contrived postwar distinctions between them. He challenges the traditional view of Himmler as an armchair general and bureaucrat, exposing him as the driving force behind one of the most successful security campaigns in history, and delves into the contentious issue of the complicity of ordinary German police, soldiers, and citizens, as well as the citizens of occupied territories, in these state-sponsored manhunts. This book provokes new debates on the Nazi terrorization of Europe, the blind acquiescence of many, and the courageous resistance of the few.

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