title: The Wehrmacht, Its Allies, and “Partisan Threats”
abstract: This chapter highlights the importance of military aggression by the Nazis and their allies for radicalization of violence; explains key Axis war aims in East and West and methods used to achieve them (“pacification”); exemplifies the key role of the Wehrmacht for mass killing of civilians in the Balkans and “the East”; recaps historiography on the myth of the “clean Wehrmacht” and its persistence in public perception and German family memory.
journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks