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Author Heaton, Colin D.

Title Occupation and insurgency : a selective examination of the Hague and Geneva Conventions on the Eastern Front, 1939-1945 / Colin D. Heaton ; edited by Steve Greer
Published New York : Algora Pub., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Table of contents -- abstract -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- chapter 1. genesis of failure -- chapter 2. wehrmacht actions and the laws of landwarfare -- chapter 3. illegal orders, directives, and propaganda -- chapter 4. development of doctrine and counter-productivity -- appendix 1. waffen ss and einsatzgruppen leaders -- appendix 2. order police and regional (higher) ss leaders for the einsatzgruppen -- bibliography -- endnotes -- index
Summary Occupation and Insurgency details German policies towards civilians and captured military forces in the Soviet Union from 1941-1945 and examines them in the context of the laws of war. The results of these policies illustrate how an occupying force can establish a sense of legitimacy or spur a stronger resistance among the local citizens. While focused upon World War II, the book is very relevant to today's war on terror and the handling of current counterinsurgency scenarios. Evaluating certain actions by the Germans in the USSR from the standpoint of The Geneva and The Hague Conventions, the book also studies many actions that, while morally egregious, did not qualify as war crimes under the law. Some of the events analyzed prompted the 1949 revision of The Geneva Convention. The German actions, as well as the Soviet responses, lend themselves to discussion as related to international law and military actions. There is no other book that uses chronicled events to address both the international legal conventions and analyzes these events in both a legal and historical paradigm. The book is closely documented, including 20 photographs and numerous interview segments with SS officers, resistance fighters, and other primary persons involved in the war, and it provides as well the perspectives of other historians regarding the critical issues discussed. Occupation and Insurgency is a book that will appeal to all levels of academia, as well as the general public with regard to general history, World War II, and legal studies. It complements and goes beyond works such as Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men, Omer Bartov's Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis and War in the Third Reich, Arad, Kurowski and Spector (eds), The Einsatzgruppen Reports, and Richard Rhodes' Masters of Death
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-209) and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Geneva Convention (1929 July 27)
Geneva Convention (1929 July 27) fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany.
Counterinsurgency -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Atrocities
Counterinsurgency
Military campaigns
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1939-1944
Germany -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054604
Subject Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))
Germany
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Greer, Steve, 1964-
ISBN 9780875866116
0875866115
1281793779
9781281793775
9786611793777
6611793771