Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath: New Approaches to a Complex Campaign

by Dr. Grzegorz Rossolin?ski-Liebe (Editor)

Overview

The 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, remains one of Nazi Germany’s most significant military campaigns. Executed by Hitler’s Wehrmacht army, this event saw troops from all over Europe defeat the Red Army and temporarily colonize large swathes of Eastern Europe, ultimately laying the groundwork for the Holocaust. In this illuminating re-examination of this multifaceted event, Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath refocuses our attention on the multiethnic nature of the campaign, shedding light on the role of soldiers from Slovakia, Italy, Romania, and Spain as well as other important issues. This volume highlights how viewing Operation Barbarossa as a multiethnic campaign, rather than a strictly German-Russian conflict, offers new ways of understanding the Holocaust, World War II and the history of European collaboration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805397861
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Series:	War and Genocide , #34
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Freie Universityät Berlin. He has published several books and articles and has edited three volumes about the Holocaust in East Central Europe, transnational fascism in Western and Eastern Europe, and the history of multiethnic cities. He was a fellow of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Jewish Claims Conference, the Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, and the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

Part I: Military

Chapter 1. The Italian Army Faced with the Antipartisan Warfare and the “Jewish Question” on the Eastern Front, 1941–43
Raffaello Pannacci

Chapter 2. Bystanders or Protectors? The Spanish Blue Division, the Eastern front, and the Jews (1941-44)
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Chapter 3. The Slovakian Army and the War of Annihilation against the Soviet Union 1941-1943
Jan Vondráček

Part II: Partisans

Chapter 4. Militarization of Jews in Soviet Partisan Units in Lithuania and Belarus during The Second World War
Daniela Ozacky Stern

Chapter 5. The Holocaust in 1941 as Part of Security Warfare in the Rear of the Eastern Front, in Light of the Nazis’ Security Apparatus and Policy
Vlasta Kordova

Part III: Solidarity

Chapter 6. Colleagues among the persecuted: Solidarity among Hungarian forced laborers during Operation Barbarossa in the light of immediate post-war memoirs and retribution documents
Istvan Pal Adam

Part IV: Science, Ideology and Propaganda

Chapter 7. The Misadventures of Private Neaţă: Propaganda, Instruction, and Identity in the Romanian Army, 1940-1944
Grant Harward                                       

Chapter 8. A Swan Song of Polish Fascism. The Eastern Front, Holocaust and the Polish attempts of political and intellectual collaboration with the Third Reich (1941-1945).
Grzegorz Krzywiec

Chapter 9. “A War With the Weapons of Science”: the Behring-Institute for Typhus Fever Research in Lviv 1942-1944
Heidi Hein-Kircher

Part V: Memory

Chapter 10. People with Disabilities under the Nazi Occupation of the North Caucasus: Victims with(out) memory in Soviet and modern Russia
Irina Rebrova

Chapter 11. An Integrated Barbarossa: Concluding Discussion
Per Anders Rudling