Keine Kameraden
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| Subject | Second World War |
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| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Published | 1978 |
Keine Kameraden. Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 1941–1945
Streit focuses on the criminal orders issued by the Wehrmacht high command prior to the invasion—calling for cooperation with the death squads of the SS and SD, limiting military justice in the occupied areas, mandating the execution of captured commissars, and ordering soldiers to act ruthlessly against Jews, partisans, and Bolsheviks. He compares and contrasts the logistical effort to feed and house the prisoners taken during the conquest of Western Europe with the lack of planning on how to organize transport, food, and shelter for the millions of Soviet prisoners the Wehrmacht expected to take. Streit attributes the massive death rate from starvation, exhaustion, exposure, and disease in 1941 to intentional neglect and argues that the treatment improved in 1942 but only for pragmatic reasons; the labor of the prisoners was needed.[5]
It originated as a doctoral dissertation at Heidelberg University in 1977, was first published in 1978, and has gone through several editions since then.[11] As of 1994[update], it has not been released in English translation.[5]
References
- JSTOR 44909716.
- ^ Christian Streit: Keine Kameraden. Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen 1941–1945 (Book Review) Förster, Jürgen. Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen; Freiburg Vol. 0, Iss. 1, (1 January 1980): 209.
- JSTOR 40105821.
- JSTOR 3779552.
- ^ doi:10.1086/244877.
- ^ Zeitung, Süddeutsche (8 August 2021). ""Der Kommunist ist kein Kamerad"". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ISSN 1476-7937.
- ISBN 978-3-86331-582-5.
- ISBN 978-0-19-251914-6.
- JSTOR 2615767.
- JSTOR 573562.