Edward B Westermann: 2 books
Hitler's Police Battalions
Enforcing Racial War in the East
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels. Along with the SS and Gestapo, the Ordnungspolizei, or Uniformed Police, played a central role in Nazi genocide that until now has been generally neglected by historians of the war.
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Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars
Comparing Genocide and Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States’s westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were,...