TY  - GEN
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - A predisposition to brutality?
BT  - german practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe
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-à-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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 165 
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
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434218
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 165
SP  - 968
EP  - 993
ER  -