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The book presents a compelling picture of the links between the Holocaust and the campaigns against "bandits." In essence it is evidence that Bach-Zelewski and others escaped paying for their crimes and as such fits into recent historiography seeking to remove the postwar whitewash from heinous
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Shepherd writes that the book "breaks new, important ground" in the study of German rear-security operations during World War II. He finds that Blood "has rendered an invaluable service" in his study of doctrines of German security warfare and the mentality of its higher-level commanders. The
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Campbell on the other hand, finds that although the book performs several important tasks, it does none of them well. One of its greatest problems, he contends, is a lack of conceptual clarity. For instance, while categorically stating that
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were exported from the Soviet Union to the rest of occupied Europe. The author argues that war crimes and atrocities committed in the West were not aberrations but a planned campaign directed by the chief of the SS,
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The book explores the functioning and operations of the rear security units and the close cooperation between the German armed forces (the
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is a 2006 book by the British author and researcher Philip W. Blood. It discusses the evolution of German rear security policies during
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initially examines German rear security doctrines and how they had been shaped by experiences of German military forces against
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Baker, Lee (March 2007). "Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. By Philip W. Blood".
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findings, according to Shepherd, "illuminate these issues to a new and unsettling degree".
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for the racial reshaping of the Eastern Europe to secure the so-called living space (
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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
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The Johns Hopkins University Press. German Studies Association
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Hitler's War in the East 1941−1945: A Critical Assessment
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criminal activity camouflaged as security operations.
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Index

Hitler’s Bandit Hunters

History
Historiography
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN
978-1-59797-021-1
World War II
BandenbekÀmpfung
crimes against humanity
francs-tireurs
Franco-Prussian War
colonial
World War I
World War II
German–Soviet War, 1941–45
genocidal plans of the Nazi regime
Lebensraum
Wehrmacht
Waffen-SS
collaborationist units
SS
Erich von dem Bach-Zalewski
BandenbekÀmpfung
occupied Europe
Ben H. Shepherd
American Historical Review
Heinrich Himmler
The Journal of Military History
Myth of the clean Wehrmacht

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