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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blount, Simon
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The British Journal for Military History 2023
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Online Access:https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1691
https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1691