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| Author | Wolfram Wette |
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| Original title | Die Wehrmacht. Feindbilder, Vernichtungskrieg, Legenden [The Wehrmacht: Images of the Enemy, War of Extermination, Legends] |
| Translator | Deborah Lucas Schneider |
| Language | English, German |
| Genre | History; Historiography |
| Publisher | S. Fischer Verlag (German edition) Harvard University Press (English edition) |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 2007 |
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| ISBN | 978-0-674-02577-6 |
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality is a 2002 book by German historian Wolfram Wette which discusses the Myth of the clean Wehrmacht. The original German-language book was translated into five languages; the English edition was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press. The book builds on Omer Bartov's 1985 study The Eastern Front, 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare. The book received a positive reception.