The 'Clean Wehrmacht myth' has long been a divisive topic both in and beyond Germany. Even in my Generation War video, comments varied wildly as to how guilty the German Wehrmacht was in the acts committed during the Second World War.

In this video, I hope to help shed some light on the overall attitude of many of the men who served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War using various academic sources and especially interviews, interrogations and overheard conversations from various German prisoners.

With a big thank you to the following channels for lending their voices for the dialogue:
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You can check out my Generation War video here: [ Ссылка ]

Further reading:
Bartov, O. (1999). "Soldiers, Nazis and War in the Third Reich". In Leitz, Christian (ed.). The Third Reich: The Essential Readings.
Förster, J. (1989). "The Wehrmacht and the War of Extermination Against the Soviet Union". In Marrus, Michael (ed.). The Nazi Holocaust Part 3 The "Final Solution": The Implementation of Mass Murder. 2. 494–520.
Krausnick, H. (1977). Kommissarbefehl und „Gerichtsbarkeitserlass Barbarossa“ in neuer Sicht. In: VfZ. 25, 682–738.
Neitzel, S., Welzer, H. (2012). Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs.
Sait, B. (2019). The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military.
Schneider, C. (2003). Ende der Legende der sauberen Wehrmacht Reaktionen auf die Ausstellung Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944.
Shepherd, B. (2009). The Clean Wehrmacht, the War of Extermination, and beyond. The Historical Journal, 52(2), 455-473.
Streim, A. (1995). Saubere Wehrmacht? In: Hannes Heer, Klaus Naumann (Hg.): Vernichtungskrieg – Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941–1944. 574.
Römer, F. (2008). Der Kommissarbefehl. Wehrmacht und NS-Verbrechen an der Ostfront 1941/42.
Römer, F. (2011). Volksgemeinschaft in der Wehrmacht? Milieus, Mentalitäten und militärische Moral in den Streitkräften des NS-Staates.
Römer, F. (2014). Comrades: The Wehrmacht from Within.
Urban, T. (11-11-1999). 'Wehrmachtsausstellung: Der Historiker, der den Fehlern auf den Grund ging', Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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