Naval Officers Under Hitler

The Men of Crew 34

Eric C Rust PhD. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2017
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-68247-231-6 (ISBN)

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Offers a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers. Unique in its subject matter and methodology in both German and international military historiography, this is a professional, political, and psychological group portrait based on personal interviews and correspondence as well as archival research.

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers. It traces their lives from their upbringing in the Weimar Republic through their post-war careers. Unique in its subject matter and methodology in both German and international military historiography, Naval Officers under Hitler is a professional, political, and psychological group portrait based on personal interviews and correspondence as well as archival research. It stresses the drama of recent German history that these officers experienced closely as observers, participants, victims, and sometimes, beneficiaries. The author argues that the vast majority of junior naval officers under Hitler, while well trained and prepared to defend their fatherland as good patriots, felt no profound or lasting attachment to Nazi ideology. Instead, their ideological preferences remained with patriotic, conservative groups such as the German National People's Party and its successor organizations after World War II. Otherwise love of the sea and of the naval profession lay at the center of their overall worldview and priorities.

Eric Rust, a native of Lübeck, Germany, and veteran of the Bundesmarine, has been a professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, since 1984. He has a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on German maritime and naval history, especially submarine warfare.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Annopolis
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	105 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-68247-231-0 / 1682472310
ISBN-13	978-1-68247-231-6 / 9781682472316
Zustand	Neuware