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Balkan Nightmare
In this biographical account, Wittmann chronicles the wartime journey of a young Romanian "Waffen-SS" conscript. Wittmann follows his struggle through some of the most ferocious theatres of World War II up to the day of Germany's unconditional surrender, only to find that the young Romanian's Balkan nightmare had only begun. The soldier continues to suffer through a high-security internment camp in Italy and experience further hunger and alienation in the post-war chaos of West Germany. Offering a cultural study of Saxon life during Wold War II as well as a unique view of the conflict through the eyes of a "Waffen-SS" conscript, Wittmann has managed to appeal to the military historian and general reader alike.
The German Army Guerrilla Warfare
An exploration of German World War II small-scale military strategy, edited by the former chief historian of the U.S. Marines. While small wars are not new, how they should be fought by a modern industrial nation is still very much a matter for debate. It is thus worth paying heed now to the experiences of another power which once encountered the same problems. This pocket manual examines German analysis of the problem, covering experiences from the Napoleonic era to the Third Reich, based upon the historical analysis, Kleinkrieg, provided to the German High Command by Arthur Ehrhardt in 1935 (republished in 1942 and 1944), and the Bandenbekampfung (Fighting the Guerrilla Bands) document pro...
Coşmar în Balcani
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Kleinkrieg
In recent years the great powers of the West—primarily the US and UK—have most often been relegated to fighting “small wars,” rather than the great confrontational battles for which they once prepared. It has been a difficult process, with some conflicts increasingly being seen as unwinnable, or at least not worth the effort in treasure and blood, even as the geopolitical structure of the world appears to slip. It is thus worth paying heed now, to the experiences of another power which once encountered the same problems. This work examines the German analysis to the problem, covering their experiences from the Napoleonic era to the Third Reich. Though the latter regime, the most desp...
Migrating Memories
Charts the transnational story of Romanian Germans in modern Europe - their migration, their position as a minority, and their memories.
Hitler's Foreign Executioners
In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of 'Germanic' peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an 'SS Europa'. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe's dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism. Even today, som...
Alptraum Balkan
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Balkan Nightmare
In this biographical account, Wittmann chronicles the wartime journey of a young Romanian "Waffen-SS" conscript. Wittmann follows his struggle through some of the most ferocious theatres of World War II up to the day of Germany's unconditional surrender, only to find that the young Romanian's Balkan nightmare had only begun. The soldier continues to suffer through a high-security internment camp in Italy and experience further hunger and alienation in the post-war chaos of West Germany. Offering a cultural study of Saxon life during Wold War II as well as a unique view of the conflict through the eyes of a "Waffen-SS" conscript, Wittmann has managed to appeal to the military historian and general reader alike.
Rekrutierungen für die Waffen-SS in Südosteuropa
Welche Vorteile erhoffen sich Menschen, wenn sie mit Okkupationsregimes zusammenarbeiten? Welche Nachteile drohen ihnen, wenn sie es nicht tun? Diese Fragen lassen sich wie ein Prisma auf die Rekrutierungen für die Waffen-SS während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Südosteuropa anwenden und auffächern. Die vorliegende Studie erklärt Absichten, Strategien und Handlungsspielräume der Besatzungsmächte, nationaler und lokaler Eliten sowie Motivation und Handlungszwänge einzelner Individuen vor dem jeweiligen lokalen Hintergrund. Im Fokus stehen dabei die drei südosteuropäischen Waffen-SS-Divisionen "Handschar", "Skanderbeg" und "Kama" und die aus ethnischen Deutschen rekrutierte Division "Prinz Eugen". Die Rekrutierungen für diese vier Divisionen umfassten sechs Staaten und weitere Grenzgebiete. In ihnen dienten Angehörige aus bis zu fünfzehn Nationen. Diese multikulturelle Zusammensetzung hatte Auswirkungen auf Rekrutierung und Alltag, aber auch auf Operationen und die Austragung interethnischer Konflikte.
Die ethnische Identität der Siebenbürger Rumänen
In Siebenburgen bestand seit dem hohen Mittelalter eine Vielzahl an Gruppenidentitaten, die sich aus der Beziehung und Abgrenzung zueinander definierten und das Spezifikum des Landes ausmachten. Nur sehr allmahlich entwickelte sich ausserhalb der bis ins 19. Jahrhundert dominanten Standeordnung ein Selbstbewusstsein der heute mit Abstand zahlreichsten Bewohner des Landes: der Rumanen. Sorin Mitu untersucht die Entstehung des Selbst- und des Fremdbildes dieser Gruppe und die Rolle, die Latinitat und Konfession dabei spielten. Er vergleicht die Rumanen auch mit den Nachbar-Ethnien der Ungarn, Deutschen und Roma sowie mit den Juden. Mit dieser fur Rumanien methodisch vollig neuartigen, von uberkommenen Mythen der nationalen Geschichtsschreibung befreiten Analyse bietet sich Mitu der mitteleuropaischen und westlichen Historiographie als kompetenter und ernstzunehmender Gesprachspartner an.
