Author : Adrian Dragoș Defta
Release : 2021-06-21
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" by : Adrian Dragoș Defta
Download or read book The 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" written by Adrian Dragoș Defta. This book was released on 2021-06-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demythologises one of the top Waffen-SS units during the Second World War, the Hitlerjugend Division. In addition to bringing together new research in European historiography, it also represents an innovative scientific approach using social psychology. It provides insights into inner psychological mechanisms that facilitated moral disengagement and culminated in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes. Best known for their alleged fanaticism, Nazi indoctrination and inclination to perpetrate atrocities, Hitlerjugend soldiers are analysed here using perspectives drawn from across sociology, anthropology and psychology.