A predisposition to brutality?
- 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.
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| Author details: | Bastian Matteo SciannaGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434218 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43421 |
| ISSN: | 1866-8380 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe |
| Subtitle (English): | german practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (165) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/10/28 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2019/10/28 |
| Tag: | Landwehr Franco-Prussian War; Geneva convention of 1864; francs-tireurs; levee en masse; myth of Franktireurkrieg; siege of Paris 1870 |
| Issue: | 165 |
| Number of pages: | 27 |
| First page: | 968 |
| Last Page: | 993 |
| Source: | Small Wars & Insurgencies 30 (2019) 4–5, S. 968–993 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2019.1638551 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| Grantor: | Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
| External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |
