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The last Nazis : Werewolf guerrilla resistance in Europe 1944-1947 / Perry Biddiscombe.
- Title
- The last Nazis : Werewolf guerrilla resistance in Europe 1944-1947 / Perry Biddiscombe.
- Author
- Biddiscombe, Alexander Perry, 1959-
- Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D757 .B467 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 287 p. : ill., maps; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1944 when it became clear that Germany would be invaded, the Werewolf guerrilla movement was given the task of slowing down the Allied advance to allow time for the success of negotiations or 'wonder weapons'. Staying behind in territory occupied by the Allies, its mission was to carry out acts of sabotage, arson and assassination, both of enemy troops and of 'defeatist' Germans. The zeal of the young guerrillas left a great impression on occupying troops and the partisans' tactics of poisoning food and carrying out summary executions added thousands to the casualty total of the bloodiest war in history." "Perry Biddiscombe has researched the movement exhaustively, and details Werewolf operations against the British, Russians and fellow Germans on the Eastern and Western Fronts and in the post-war chaos of Berlin. Giving the lie to the established story of a cowed German population meekly submitting to defeat, this is a fascinating insight into what has been described as 'the death scream of the Nazi regime'. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-278) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The nature of the beast -- The trouble with Werewolves -- The watch on, before and behind the Rhine -- Man is wolf to his fellow man -- Swept by the Red Tide -- Werewolves after the fact -- The wolf hunt.
- ISBN
- 0752423428
- 9780752423425
- LCCN
- ^^2006389207
- OCLC
- 71190347
- SCSB-12020474
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library