Endkampf : Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich pdf

Endkampf : Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich pdf

Endkampf : Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen G. Fritz

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Author: Stephen G. Fritz
Page Count: 418 pages
Published Date: 15 Jul 2011
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Publication Country: Lexington, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780813123257
File Name: Endkampf.Soldiers,.Civilians,.and.the.Death.of.the.Third.Reich.pdf
Download Link: Endkampf Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich
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At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units before they could reach the Alps. Opposing this advance was a conglomeration of German forces headed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Max Simon, a committed National Socialist who advocated merciless resistance. Under the direction of officers schooled in harsh combat in Russia, the Germans succeeded in bringing the American advance to a grinding halt. Caught in the middle were the people of Franconia. Historians have accorded little mention to this period of violence and terror, but it provides insight into the chaotic nature of life while the Nazi regime was crumbling. Neither German civilians nor foreign refugees acted simply as passive victims caught between two fronts. Throughout the region people pressured local authorities to end the senseless resistance and sought revenge for their tribulations in the "liberation" that followed. Stephen G. Fritz examines the predicament and outlook of American GI's, German soldiers and officials, and the civilian population caught in the arduous fighting during the waning days of World War II. Endkampf is a gripping portrait of the collapse of a society and how it affected those involved, whether they were soldiers or civilians, victors or vanquished, perpetrators or victims. Stephen G. Fritz, professor of history at East Tennessee State University, is the author of Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II .

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