@article{Scianna2019, author = {Scianna, Bastian Matteo}, title = {Rebuilding an Austrian Army}, series = {War in History}, volume = {26}, journal = {War in History}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {0968-3445}, doi = {10.1177/0968344516682057}, pages = {105 -- 123}, year = {2019}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @article{Kay2020, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Crimes of the Wehrmacht}, series = {Journal of Perpetrator Research}, volume = {3}, journal = {Journal of Perpetrator Research}, number = {1}, publisher = {University Press}, address = {Manchester}, issn = {2514-7897}, doi = {10.21039/jpr.3.1.29}, pages = {95 -- 127}, year = {2020}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} }