Description: This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier and not an accomplice to massacres of civilians. Wette explodes this myth of a "clean" Wehrmacht with devastating clarity.
Brief description: Wolfram Wette is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Review Quotes: Wolfram Wette has synthesized a large body of scholarly studies written by critical military historians in the past thirty years and makes them accessible to a nonspecialist audience...This book is an important contribution to the recent historical literature that reveals the much resisted and painful process by which Germans learned to deal honestly with the unmasterable past.--Derek S. Linton "The Historian" (6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM)