Omer Bartov
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Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian. He is the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000.
Bartov in 2022
Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
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The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the negationist notion that the regular German armed forces were not involved in the Holocaust or other war crimes during World War II. The myth, heavily promoted by
Germans protesting the Wehrmacht exhibition in 2002. The touring exhibition, organised by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, began to erode the myth for the German public in the 1990s. The signs state "Glory and honour to the German soldier!"
About 300 Polish prisoners of war were murdered by soldiers of the German 15th Motorised Infantry Regiment in the Ciepielów massacre on 9 September 1939.
Großadmiral Karl Dönitz and several Kriegsmarine (Naval branch of the Wehrmacht) officers performing the Nazi salute in 1941
Three men about to be hanged in front of a large crowd of Wehrmacht soldiers