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AZ, USA
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Posted: 8/3/2022 11:28:43 PM EDT
I am doing research on what happened to the German army between WW1 and WW2. Does anyone have any book recommendations on this topic? Any that perhaps have from an officer's perspective? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Posted: 8/3/2022 11:58:27 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Jack67]
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This is a multi-pronged question because there are a lot of significant, different ways to answer it:
- How it developed tactics and weapons from 1920 to 1939 - The role it played in politics and social upheaval, in the civil war, Weimar, and then Nazi period - How it evaded treaty restrictions wrt to manpower and weapons. I don’t know single source that discusses all of that. If you want one that focuses on military capabilities, this is a good book that answers the first point well, “Path to Blitzkrieg:” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2624626-path-to-blitzkrieg |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 8/4/2022 5:16:20 AM EDT
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Was it them was obtaining rifles and claiming they were for Forrest Rangers? Somebody tried to pull that.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 8/4/2022 12:12:48 PM EDT
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I’m mostly interested in quality of life for those soldiers. I’m also interested in the geopolitical part of things. What happens to their officer corps? How did the larger picture effect their day to day? Things like that.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 8/5/2022 10:15:02 AM EDT
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You may want to read some books by members of the Reichswehr. In Deadly Combat by Biderman covers some of it. He was later commissioned into the Wehrmacht.
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Posted: 9/10/2022 11:40:23 PM EDT
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"The Kings Depart"---chronicles the Treaty of Versailles, how it came about, it's effect on Germany, and then political conditions in Germany in the twenties.
Gives good perspective on how the conditions arose that allowed Hitler to come to power, how close Germany came to becoming another Soviet Union, and the importance of being magnanimous in victory. |
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Posted: 9/10/2022 11:52:14 PM EDT
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Mathew Cooper The German Army
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CA, USA
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Posted: 10/10/2022 10:14:04 PM EDT
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William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has some good information on the German army in the interwar years. It's really big, and will tell you a lot more, about half of what there is to know on the Second World War in Europe, probably.
Amazon link |
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Posted: 10/17/2022 1:37:00 AM EDT
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The Evans series might help. Particularly the first book.
IIRC,he covers a good bit about the how they circumvented the 100k limit with auxiliary police. Most of the 100k were the officer corps. Also sending officers to USSR for armor and flight training. Glider clubs as pilot training |
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