War in a Twilight World: Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1939-45

by B. Shepherd (Editor), J. Pattinson (Editor)

Overview

Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied eastern Europe during World War Two, showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider population.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230575691
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/27/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ALEXANDER BRAKEL Policy Advisor to the Head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Federal Parliament ERICH HABERER Lecturer in Modern European History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada CLAIRE M HALL Doctoral Graduate, Hull University, UK ALEXANDER KORB Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany GREGOR KRANJC Lecturer in Modern Eastern European History, College of William& Mary, Virginia, USA PAUL LATAWSKI Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK EVAN MAWDSLEY Professor of International History, University of Glasgow, UK JEFF RUTHERFORD Assistant Professor of History, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia, USA KLAUS SCHMIDER Senior Lecturer, War Studies Department, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK KENNETH SLEPYAN Professor of Modern European History, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Table and Figure vii

Acknowledgements viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Glossary xii

Introduction: Illuminating a Twilight World Ben Shepherd Juliette Pattinson 1

Part I The Soviet Union 25

Foreword Evan Mawdsley 27

1 Partisans, Civilians and the Soviet State: An Overview Kenneth Slepyan 35

2 'One senses danger from all sides, especially from fanatical civilians': The 121st Infantry Division and Partisan War, June 1941-April 1942 Jeff Rutherford 58

3 The Relationship between Soviet Partisans and the Civilian Population in Belorussia under German Occupation, 1941-4 Alexander Brakel 80

4 The German Gendarmerie and Partisans in Belorussia, 1941-4 Erich Haberer 102

Select Bibliography 126

Part II Poland 129

Foreword Paul Latawski 131

5 The Armia Krajowa and Polish Partisan Warfare, 1939-43 Paul Latawski 137

6 'A Game of Cat-and-Mouse': The Gestapo Spy Network in Tomaschow Mazowiecki, Poland 1939-45 Claire M. Hubbard-Hall 156

Select Bibliography 178

Part III Yugoslavia 179

Foreword Klaus Schmider 181

7 Bloodier than Boehme: The 342nd Infantry Division in Serbia, 1941 Ben Shepherd 189

8 Integrated Warfare? The Germans and the Ustasa Massacres: Syrmia 1942 Alexander Korb 210

9 Propaganda and the Partisan War in Ljubljana 1943-45 Gregor Joseph Kranjc 233

Select Bibliography 257

Index 258