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The myth of a Wehrmacht not participating in Nazi and war crimes was one of the most influential historical narratives of the post-war period. Top officers of the Wehrmacht, the protagonists of the narrative itself, played a decisive role in this. Favoured by the political situation, they were able to push through historical-political demands in the 1950s that contributed significantly to their rehabilitation and integration into the Federal Republic. The most important test they had to pass along the way were the Allied trials against representatives of the generalship, which publicly called their innocence into question. Jens Brüggemann goes to the starting point of this development for the first time with the Nuremberg Main War Crimes Trial.
He shows on a broad source basis how the top representatives of the Wehrmacht present there, with the support of their lawyers, succeeded in developing an argumentation in confrontation with the prosecution, which became the basis of their public self-presentation. A course of events that was by no means predictable. Due to old and new conflicts, the officers' cooperation faced an immense strain that almost led to the break-up of a common front in court. Meticulously and in detail, the author takes a look behind the scenes of the Nuremberg defence, asking about motives, goals and mentalities. From this inside view, he draws new insights into the trial and some of the highest-ranking Wehrmacht officers. He pays attention to the time before and during the war as well as to the question of what influence the exculpatory arguments of the Nuremberg trial had on post-war historical images, especially on early and contemporary research. Volume 112 of the series "War in History".
He shows on a broad source basis how the top representatives of the Wehrmacht present there, with the support of their lawyers, succeeded in developing an argumentation in confrontation with the prosecution, which became the basis of their public self-presentation. A course of events that was by no means predictable. Due to old and new conflicts, the officers' cooperation faced an immense strain that almost led to the break-up of a common front in court. Meticulously and in detail, the author takes a look behind the scenes of the Nuremberg defence, asking about motives, goals and mentalities. From this inside view, he draws new insights into the trial and some of the highest-ranking Wehrmacht officers. He pays attention to the time before and during the war as well as to the question of what influence the exculpatory arguments of the Nuremberg trial had on post-war historical images, especially on early and contemporary research. Volume 112 of the series "War in History".
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- Books (first-hand)
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- Brüggemann, Jens
- Title
- Männer von Ehre? Die Wehrmachtsgeneralität im Nürnberger Prozess 1945/46. Zur Entstehung einer Legende
- Details
- 631 pp.
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