Terror in the Balkans : German armies and partisan warfare /
"Ben Shepherd ... uses Austro-Hungarian Army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range o...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps
- Forging a wartime mentality: the impact of World War I
- Bridging two Hells: the 1920s and 1930s
- Invasion and occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941
- Islands in an insurgent sea: the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia
- Settling accounts in blood: the 342d Infantry Division in Serbia
- Standing divided: the independent state of Croatia, 1942
- Glimmers of sanity: the 718th Infantry Division in Bosnia
- The morass: attitudes harden in the 718th Infantry Division
- The Devil's Division: the 369th Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943.
