This is the most complete history to date of the partisan
movement set up by the Nazi regime in Germany in the last days of the Second World War. This is the most complete history to date of the partisan
movement set up by the Nazi regime in Germany in the last days of the Second World War.
` . . . a substantial and instructive book . . .' (Intelligence and National Security)
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. . . Biddiscombe has assembled an astonishing quantity of evidence . . . ’ Holocaust and GenocideFrom archive material, personal memoirs, regional histories and court case summaries, the author documents in considerable detail the surprisingly large number and wide geographical dispersion of Werwolf attacks, both against the occupying powers and German 'collaborators'. Readers will find equally surprising the severity of Allied reprisals which included the taking of hostages, the destruction and evacuation of towns and the levying of collective fines. Certain areas such as the Harz mountains and the Black Forest were engulfed in guerrilla warfare in 1945 and isolated acts of resistance continued to the end of the 1940s. At a theoretic level the book provides strong support for the 'functionalist' analysis of the Third Reich.
' . . . scholarly and well-documented . . . In Werwolf! Perry Biddiscombe has provided us with a bulwark against any belated attempts to bring about their romanticised resurrection in the extreme neo-Nazi Right of present-day Germany.' (Times Literary Supplement)
Perry Biddiscombe is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
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