TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - A predisposition to brutality?
T2  - Small wars and insurgencies
N2  - The German Sonderweg thesis has been discarded in most research fields. Yet in regards to the military, things differ: all conflicts before the Second World War are interpreted as prelude to the war of extermination between 1939-1945. This article specifically looks at the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 and German behaviour vis-a-vis regular combatants, civilians and irregular guerrilla fighters, the so-called francs-tireurs. The author argues that the counter-measures were not exceptional for nineteenth century warfare and also shows how selective reading of the existing secondary literature has distorted our view on the war.
KW  - Francs-tireurs
KW  - levee en masse
KW  - myth of Franktireurkrieg
KW  - Franco-Prussian War
KW  - Geneva convention of 1864
KW  - Landwehr
KW  - siege of Paris 1870
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48766
SN  - 0959-2318
SN  - 1743-9558
VL  - 30
IS  - 4-5
SP  - 968
EP  - 993
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -