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Copyright by Jeffrey C. Rutherford
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Soldiers into Nazis? The German Inf
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Acknowledgements This dissertation
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Soldiers into Nazis? The German Inf
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Table of Contents List of Tables ..
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List of Tables Table 1: Casualties
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List of Illustrations Illustration
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fulfill numerous duties outside of
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Communism [is] an enormous danger f
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“systematic starvation of million
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national-socialist German Volk,”
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German Army had “finally [become]
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Heer, the exhibition claimed that
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the taboo:” the Army’s particip
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seriously implicated in National So
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June 1941, only nine were Security
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official doctrine and kept alive th
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looms large. Fundamentally, this me
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was seen as desirable, either due t
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would have been fought as a particu
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method in looking at the German Arm
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northernmost Army Group have receiv
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which these crimes were committed a
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the content of even one letter, to
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to the exigencies of the Cold War,
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indispensable source for investigat
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SECTION ONE: REGIONAL COHESION AND
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a series of wars fought in the Balt
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emaining 40% of the population was
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ecently as May 1928, the NSDAP rece
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As the preceding discussion intimat
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moderate Left following a successfu
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IV. CONCLUSION While the Weimar Rep
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The system ran into major difficult
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The importance of regional homogene
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“equivalent of its initial streng
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alternative existed between the Shi
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In an attempt to gauge the effectiv
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trained reserves. 219 90,000 of the
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Monthly Casualties 3000 2500 2000 1
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Monthly Casualties 3000 2500 2000 1
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to lead offensive operations. 240 T
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Replacements began entering the 126
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Number of Men 140 120 100 80 60 40
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46% of the troops were native to Mi
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flank such as the 123 rd ID, did ex
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attle for the Volkhov Pocket as 4,8
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A similar rollercoaster pattern als
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Number of Men 180 160 140 120 100 8
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Number of Men 1600 1400 1200 1000 8
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An astounding number of over 12,000
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dilution of the units’ bonds. Reg
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groups of men constituted only 44%
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men, since March. 290 From August t
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Numbers of Men 2500 2000 1500 1000
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one soldier who had any ties to the
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a large scale - this is something n
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Westphalian 254 th ID related a sim
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of the 1,567 replacements received
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winter of 1941/1942. This meant tha
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propaganda has been overstated in e
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In addition to receiving military i
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and political commissars were to be
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Führer against the center of this
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Army men were quickly changing into
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with the behavior of the men earlie
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however, they were well aware of th
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1; a report sent to II Corps indica
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fortifications. 388 The medic in th
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While the German Infantry learned t
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only a few lean pigs - what will we
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quotations reveals ideological warr
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In what seemed to be a universal re
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measures” in “hopes [of] stop[p
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as artillery, supply and communicat
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intensified as the fighting neared
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marks. 460 Lt. W. was far more scor
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east of the Leningrad encirclement,
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however, was limited to the tempora
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of artillery approximate that of th
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are near the end of their physical
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first netted 93 prisoners as well 2
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“thoroughly positive” attitude
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operation. 522 The Rhinelanders con
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in attempts on rear-area connection
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In comparison to the logistical sit
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proper winter equipment, reporting
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While the 123 rd ID struggled to se
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in the 123 rd ID carried out severa
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Army were assigned to cooperate wit
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only limited to defensive combat.
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positions with the outcome of the b
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The division ordered the clearing o
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equired evacuation. The civilians n
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quartermaster of the 123 rd ID orde
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villagers, both under threats of vi
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five months later, Colonel-General
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Once again, each division had its o
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Cooperation between the German Army
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frequently stripped of any possessi
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126 th and especially the 123 rd ID
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individual soldiers did circumvent
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were “undesirable . . . on espion
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authorities deemed anyone who “su
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etc., etc.” 692 These degrading m
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odied males led to a labor shortage
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Individual soldiers claimed that th
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direction of Petersburg, to turn ba
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economic agencies believed that the
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the troops’ discipline caused by
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there are in Leningrad increases th
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The population’s mood in the comb
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lack of transport capacity limited
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hanged for cannibalism in February
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the question of sustenance [for civ
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Einsatzgruppe A also noted that the
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the food it could lay its hands on.
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the exhaustion felt by the 121 st I
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day of the entire Eastern Campaign,
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This cracking morale was caused in
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Volkhov River. 821 The East Prussia
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possessed little chance of success,
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worsened daily. No supply, constant
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on every man through fortification
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without break. 850 Within two weeks
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than part of an ideological war aga
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ehind us is nothing more than furth
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The 126 th ID informed XXXVIII Corp
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celebration. 883 According to the 4
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feelings such as these translated i
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Secondly, as the latter entry notes
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foot were able to traverse the corr
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good spirits, though in individual
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The Germans began to recruit as wel
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terrain, which provided partisans w
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destroy a section of Novgorod-Luga
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the inside. 956 Troops operating un
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Since 12.3.42 290 ID Rgts-Staff and
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Regiment, prepared to meet the resc
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well as prisoners-of-war for these
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January as it did not possess the n
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“emergency measures” in those v
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ehavior and ruthlessly exploiting t
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“special meaning . . . due to the
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the deaths of only two partisans fr
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Wehrmacht. 1027 The individual sold
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Chapter 8: “From One Mess to Anot
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altogether, 27.9.42 was one of the
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surrounding population. Division co
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had their passes marked “A” whi
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were soon washed away as the 121 st
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The 121 st ID certainly shoulders r
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ordered Manstein to take command of
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the Hilfswilligen for voluntary and
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The 121 st ID also worked closely w
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the High Command, they do demonstra
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SECTION FOUR: RETREAT - SCORCHED EA
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etreat, participating in what perha
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Soviet pressure on the southern fro
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and successful combat.” 1128 The
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and seizure of all men ages 16-65 w
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the Demiansk pocket thought to be r
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Chapter 10: “War and fire . . . t
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was bought at a steep price. The 12
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superior at Corps that the division
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Division to ship its Jagd-Kommando
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eported the shooting of six partisa
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