Reviews
"the latest volume of Germany and the Second World War slices open the German war effort and examines the inner workings of war administration, economy, and manpower resources...every page is packed with a dense compilation of information and analysis...a rigorous, academic analysis packedwith information impossible to find elsewhere in English, and it also forms an integral part of an exceedingly important series of books about Germany's role in the world conflict. We can't recommend it to the casual reader, but it certainly belongs on the shelf of every serious historian of WorldWar II as part of the ultimate autopsy of the German war effort." --Stone and Stone, "An indispensable new dimension is added to our understanding of the conflict...describes events in ruthless detail from the view point of the Third Reich" --The Evening Standard, 'This book maintains the extremely high standards set by previous volumes in the series. Each essay provides both an excellent summing up of the literature (at least until 2005) and some fresh insights based on archival research ... [it] remains an essential starting point for German society during the war.'Jeff Rutherford, German HistoryReview from previous edition REVIEW OF OTHER VOLUMES IN SERIES''A meticulous, scholarly perspective on the conflict from Germany's side''Max Hastings, Evening Standard''Brilliant analysis of how Germany fought its war''Max Hastings, Evening Standard''authoritative and lavishly produced set of studies, co-authored in the present case by a half-dozen of the Federal Republic's leading military historians...Klink's over two-hundred-page summary of the actual conduct of operations...is a model of its kind. The translation reads flawlessly.''International History Review''monumental study of Germany and the Second World War''Victor Rothwell, History''It is a monumental work that provides extensive, copiously annotated, and cartographically illustrated coverage of the background, planning, and execution of the German attack and the Soviet response...a volume that almost certainly is the closest thing there ever will be to a definitively authoritative history of the opening phase of the German campaign that represented a turning point in the history of the war and of the world in the twentiethcentury.''World War Two Studies Association''An indispensable new dimension is added to our understanding of the conflict...describes events in ruthless detail from the view point of the Third Reich''The Evening Standard''I assure you all that it is worth every penny! This one volume seems to be destined to become THE definitive study on the German planning and invasion of the Societ Union for decades to come. The wealth of detail and information included in this work is simply staggering...I wholeheartedly recommend this book.''Axis Europa''Should leave no doubt that the world's most distinguished company of military historians is to be found in the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt.''American Historical Review''the latest volume of Germany and the Second World War slices open the German war effort and examines the inner workings of war administration, economy, and manpower resources...every page is packed with a dense compilation of information and analysis...a rigorous, academic analysis packed with information impossible to find elsewhere in English, and it also forms an integral part of an exceedingly important series of books about Germany's role in theworld conflict. We can't recommend it to the casual reader, but it certainly belongs on the shelf of every serious historian of World War II as part of the ultimate autopsy of the German war effort.''Stone & Stone''By bringing out an English translation, OUP have put all scholars of the war in their debt. If any volume can lay claim to being definitive, this is surely it. The authors have read almost unbelievably widely in the primary and secondary sources...it will endure...an indispensable guide to the latest research on most key aspects of the war...the range and intellectual energy...will make it an invaluable work of reference for undergraduate andresearchers...as valuable a commemoration of the war as any.''Mark Mazower, History Today''[Part of] a succession of mighty volumes ... The portrait of German wartime society presented by this book is somber, meticulously documented, cool, reasoned.''The New York Review of Books, "Should leave no doubt that the world's most distinguished company of military historians is to be found in the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt." --American Historical Review, "It is a monumental work that provides extensive, copiously annotated, and cartographically illustrated coverage of the background, planning, and execution of the German attack and the Soviet response...a volume that almost certainly is the closest thing there ever will be to a definitivelyauthoritative history of the opening phase of the German campaign that represented a turning point in the history of the war and of the world in the twentieth century." --World War Two Studies Association, "A meticulous, scholarly perspective on the conflict from Germany's side" --Max Hastings, Evening Standard, "authoritative and lavishly produced set of studies, co-authored in the present case by a half-dozen of the Federal Republic's leading military historians...Klink's over two-hundred-page summary of the actual conduct of operations...is a model of its kind. The translation reads flawlessly." --International History Review, "I assure you all that it is worth every penny! This one volume seems to be destined to become THE definitive study on the German planning and invasion of the Societ Union for decades to come. The wealth of detail and information included in this work is simply staggering...I wholeheartedlyrecommend this book." --Axis Europa
Table of Content
Part One: Perceptions and Assigned Meanings1. Introduction to Part One2. Nationalism in German War Society 1939-19453. Total Entertainment? Cultural Warfare 1939-1945: Film, Radio, and Theatre4. 'The War and the Jews': Nazi Propaganda in the Second World War5. The Decline of Interpretative Power: National Socialist Propaganda during the War6. Moods in Wartime: The Emotions Expressed in Forces Mail7. Talking to the lVolksgemeinschaftr: German War Society as seen by the Western Allies through Front-Line Interrogations8. 'Human Leadership' in Armament Companies in the National Socialist War EconomyPart Two: Aliens in war-time everyday life1. Introduction to Part Two2. Social Differentiation of Foreign Civilian Workers, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in the Reich3. Forced labour in agriculture4. Forced labour in industry5. German Policy on Prisoners of War, 1939 to 19456. Limits to German Rule: Conditions for and Results of the Occupation of the Soviet Union7. 'Everything will be totally changed.' German Society and the War: A Summing-Up, Part One: Perceptions and Assigned Meanings1. Introduction to Part One, Jorg Echternkamp2. Nationalism in German War Society 1939-1945, Sven Oliver Muller3. Total Entertainment? Cultural Warfare 1939-1945: Film, Radio, and Theatre, Birthe Kundrus4. 'The War and the Jews': Nazi Propaganda in the Second World War, Jeffrey Herf5. The Decline of Interpretative Power: National Socialist Propaganda during the War, Aristotle A. Kallis6. Moods in Wartime: The Emotions Expressed in Forces Mail, Katrin A. Kilian7. Talking to the lVolksgemeinschaftr: German War Society as seen by the Western Allies through Front-Line Interrogations, Rafael A. Zagovec8. 'Human Leadership' in Armament Companies in the National Socialist War Economy, Georg Wagner-KyoraPart Two: Aliens in war-time everyday life1. Introduction to Part Two, Jorg Echternkamp2. Social Differentiation of Foreign Civilian Workers, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in the Reich, Mark Spoerer3. Forced labour in agriculture, Ela Hornung, Ernst Langthaler, and Sabine Schweitzer4. Forced labour in industry, Oliver Rathkolb5. German Policy on Prisoners of War, 1939 to 1945, Rudiger Overmans6. Limits to German Rule: Conditions for and Results of the Occupation of the Soviet Union, Bernhard Chiari7. 'Everything will be totally changed.' German Society and the War: A Summing-Up, Hans-Ulrich Thamer
