Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945

by Bastiaan Willems

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital K nigsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht's retreat into Germany, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, contributed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108479723
• ISBN13: 9781108479721
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.2"