Terror in the Balkans by Ben Shepherd

Author:Ben Shepherd [Shepherd, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Military, World War II, Science & Math, Earth Sciences, Geography, Regional
Amazon: B00838XQNY
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

IN THE

BALKANS

German Armies and Partisan Warfare

BEN SHEPHERD

Harvard University Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, England

2012

Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shepherd, Ben.

Terror in the Balkans : German armies and partisan warfare / Ben Shepherd.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-674-04891-1 (alk. paper)

1. World War, 1939–1945—Yugoslavia. 2. World War, 1939–1945—

Underground movements—Yugoslavia. 3. Yugoslavia—History—Axis occupation,

1941–1945. 4. Germany. Heer—History—World War, 1939–1945. I. Title.

D766.6.S44 2012

940.53'497—dc23 2011048292

Contents

Introduction

1

1. Before the Great War:

Changes in the Offi cer Corps

12

2. Forging a Wartime Mentality:

The Impact of World War I

28

3. Bridging Two Hells: The 1920s and 1930s

57

4. Invasion and Occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941

72

5. Islands in an Insurgent Sea: The 704th

Infantry Division in Serbia

83

6. Settling Accounts in Blood: The 342d

Infantry Division in Serbia

119

7. Standing Divided: The Independent State

of Croatia, 1942

148

8. Glimmers of Sanity: The 718th

Infantry Division in Bosnia

161

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9. The Morass: Attitudes Harden in the

718th Infantry Division

190

10. The Devil’s Division: The 369th

Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943

215

Conclusion

236

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