TY  - GEN
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - Forging an Italian hero?
BT  - the late commemoration of Amedeo Guillet (1909–2010)
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - Over the last two decades, Amedeo Guillet (1909–2010) has been turned into a public and military hero. His exploits as a guerrilla leader in Italian East Africa in 1941 have been exaggerated to forge a narrative of an honourable resistance against overwhelming odds. Thereby, Guillet has been showcased as a romanticized colonial explorer who was an apolitical and timeless Italian officer. He has been compared to Lawrence of Arabia in order to raise his international visibility, while his genuine Italian brand is perpetuated domestically. By elevating him to an official role model, the Italian Army has gained a focal point for military heroism that was also acceptable in the public memory as the embodiment of a ‘glorious’ defeat narrative.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 152 
KW  - Italy
KW  - Second World War
KW  - Amedeo Guillet
KW  - colonialism
KW  - Italian East Africa
KW  - collective memory
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416866
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 152
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - Rebuilding an Austrian Army
BT  - The Bundesheer’s Founding Generation and the Wehrmacht Past, 1955–1970
JF  - War in History
N2  - After the Second World War, a new Austrian Army (the Bundesheer) was formed to guarantee the country’s armed neutrality. But the period between 1938 and 1945 remained a point of contention. While some Austrian officers had been sidelined, the majority had served in the Wehrmacht and thus shared experiences and soldierly values. As Cold War realities necessitated a professional experienced army, a group around Erwin Fussenegger (1908–1986) dominated the new Bundesheer and contemplations about reforming the military culture and value system were postponed; while at the same time, the Bundesheer managed to prevent becoming a mere continuation of the Wehrmacht.
KW  - Austria
KW  - Wehrmacht
KW  - Second World War
KW  - Cold War
KW  - military culture
KW  - Bundesheer
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344516682057
SN  - 0968-3445
SN  - 1477-0385
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
SP  - 105
EP  - 123
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - Forging an Italian hero?
BT  - The late commemoration of Amedeo Guillet (1909-2010)
JF  - European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
N2  - Over the last two decades, Amedeo Guillet (1909–2010) has been turned into a public and military hero. His exploits as a guerrilla leader in Italian East Africa in 1941 have been exaggerated to forge a narrative of an honourable resistance against overwhelming odds. Thereby, Guillet has been showcased as a romanticized colonial explorer who was an apolitical and timeless Italian officer. He has been compared to Lawrence of Arabia in order to raise his international visibility, while his genuine Italian brand is perpetuated domestically. By elevating him to an official role model, the Italian Army has gained a focal point for military heroism that was also acceptable in the public memory as the embodiment of a ‘glorious’ defeat narrative.
KW  - Italy
KW  - Second World War
KW  - Amedeo Guillet
KW  - colonialism
KW  - Italian East Africa
KW  - collective memory
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2018.1492520
SN  - 1350-7486
SN  - 1469-8293
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
SP  - 369
EP  - 385
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kay, Alex J.
T1  - Crimes of the Wehrmacht
BT  - A Re-evaluation
JF  - Journal of Perpetrator Research
N2  - Of the up to eighteen million men who served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, ten million were deployed at one time or another between 1941 and 1944 in the conflict against the Soviet Union, a theatre of widespread and sustained mass violence. In order to determine how extensive complicity in Nazi crimes was among the mass of the regular German soldiers, it is necessary first of all to define what constitutes a criminal undertaking. The sheer brutality of the German conduct of war and occupation in the Soviet Union has overshadowed many activities that would otherwise be rightly held up as criminal acts.
KW  - Wehrmacht
KW  - criminality
KW  - mass violence
KW  - occupation
KW  - Second World War
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.29
SN  - 2514-7897
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 95
EP  - 127
PB  - University Press
CY  - Manchester
ER  -