A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the authors address a broad range of analytical problems that this vast conflict posed in its European and Asian theaters. They analyze modes of combat, war aims, the mobilization of economies and societies, occupation regimes, the vulnerability of noncombatants, and the legal and moral issues raised by the industrialized warfare of the mid-twentieth century. |
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The Home Front in Total War Women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War | 197 |
Women in the Soviet War Effort 19411945 | 223 |
The Spirit of St Louis Mobilizing American Politics and Society 19311945 | 235 |
The War Against Noncombatants | 249 |
Partisan War in Belomssia 19411944 | 251 |
Allied Bombing and the Destruction of German Cities | 267 |
Hiroshima Nagasaki and Total War | 287 |
Criminal War | 305 |
Mobilizing Economies | 125 |
The USSR and Total War Why Didnt the Soviet Economy Collapse in 1942? | 127 |
Blood Sweat and Tears British Mobilization for World War II | 147 |
The Impact of Compulsory Labor on German Society at War | 167 |
Mobilizing Societies | 177 |
Fantasy Reality and Modes of Perception in Ludendorffs and Goebbelss Concepts of Total War | 179 |
Sexual Violence and Its Prosecution by Courts Martial of the Wehrmacht BIRGIT BECK | 307 |
Japans War on China | 323 |
On the Road to Total Retribution? The International Debate on the Punishment of War Crimes 18721945 | 345 |
Total War Some Concluding Reflections | 365 |
Index | 375 |
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Página 313 - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.
Página 55 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
Página 54 - In the present convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members or the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part...
Página 91 - Victory— victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Página 157 - I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Página 96 - Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
Página 348 - How strange! But never mind - it's Nazism, it will pass!' And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only...
Página 319 - I want to make here is that as rape is the quintessential act by which a male demonstrates to a female that she is conquered— vanquished— by his superior strength and power, it was perfectly logical within the framework of fascism that rape would be employed by the German soldier as he strove to prove himself a worthy Superman. In fact, it would have been highly iJIogical if rape were not in the German soldier's kit bag of weapons.
Página 71 - Theory must concede all this; but it has the duty to give priority to the absolute form of war and to make that form a general point of reference, so that he who wants to learn from theory becomes accustomed to keeping that point in view constantly, to measuring all his hopes and fears by it, and to approximating it when he can or when he must.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945 Publications of the German Historical Institute |
| Editores | Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, Bernd Greiner |
| Colaboradores | Deutsches Historisches Institut (Washington, D.C.), German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0521834325, 9780521834322 |
| Número de páginas | 392 páginas |
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