Naval Officers Under Hitler: The Men of Crew 34 - Couverture souple

Rust PhD., Eric C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1682472310 ISBN 13 : 9781682472316

Editeur : Naval Institute Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers. It traces their lives from their upbringing in the Weimar Republic through their post-war careers. Unique in its subject matter and methodology in both German and international military historiography, Naval Officers under Hitler is a professional, political, and psychological group portrait based on personal interviews and correspondence as well as archival research. It stresses the drama of recent German history that these officers experienced closely as observers, participants, victims, and sometimes, beneficiaries. The author argues that the vast majority of junior naval officers under Hitler, while well trained and prepared to defend their fatherland as good patriots, felt no profound or lasting attachment to Nazi ideology. Instead, their ideological preferences remained with patriotic, conservative groups such as the German National People's Party and its successor organizations after World War II. Otherwise love of the sea and of the naval profession lay at the center of their overall worldview and priorities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eric Rust, a native of Lübeck, Germany, and veteran of the Bundesmarine, has been a professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, since 1984. He has a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on German maritime and naval history, especially submarine warfare.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Naval Institute Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1682472310
• ISBN 13: 9781682472316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible