Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940
The Austrian post-war narrative of service in the Wehrmacht was that Austrian troops were either unwilling participants in German aggression or were motivated by a sense of anti-Bolshevism. This article, drawing on a number of German language accounts of the Narvik land campaign, suggests that Austr...
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ftgoldsmithunojs:oai:ojs.gold.ac.uk:article/1691 2023-10-01T03:57:27+02:00 Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940 Blount, Simon 2023-03-22 application/pdf https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691 https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1691 eng eng The British Journal for Military History https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691/1796 https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691 doi:10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1691 Copyright (c) 2023 British Journal for Military History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 British Journal for Military History; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023); 138-155 2057-0422 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Full Text 2023 ftgoldsmithunojs https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.169110.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1 2023-09-02T18:34:49Z The Austrian post-war narrative of service in the Wehrmacht was that Austrian troops were either unwilling participants in German aggression or were motivated by a sense of anti-Bolshevism. This article, drawing on a number of German language accounts of the Narvik land campaign, suggests that Austrian officers and soldiers absorbed into the Wehrmacht were enthusiastic, efficient and dependable members of the German armed forces. The article concludes that, at least for the early German campaigns in Poland and the West, the Austrian post-war rationalisation of participation in German military aggression was false. Article in Journal/Newspaper Narvik Narvik Goldsmiths, University of London: Journals Online Narvik ENVELOPE(17.427,17.427,68.438,68.438) |
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The Austrian post-war narrative of service in the Wehrmacht was that Austrian troops were either unwilling participants in German aggression or were motivated by a sense of anti-Bolshevism. This article, drawing on a number of German language accounts of the Narvik land campaign, suggests that Austrian officers and soldiers absorbed into the Wehrmacht were enthusiastic, efficient and dependable members of the German armed forces. The article concludes that, at least for the early German campaigns in Poland and the West, the Austrian post-war rationalisation of participation in German military aggression was false. |
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Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940 |
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Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940 |
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Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940 |
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Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940 |
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hitler’s willing soldiers: austrian mountain troops at narvik 1940 |
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The British Journal for Military History |
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2023 |
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https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691 https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1691 |
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ENVELOPE(17.427,17.427,68.438,68.438) |
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British Journal for Military History; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023); 138-155 2057-0422 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1 |
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https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691/1796 https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691 doi:10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1691 |
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Copyright (c) 2023 British Journal for Military History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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