The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi–Soviet War in American Popular Culture by Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies, is a historical analysis of the post-war myth of the "Clean Wehrmacht", the negat
Book cover of The Myth of the Eastern Front; image adopted from cover art of the 1987 wargame The Last Victory: Von Manstein's Backhand Blow, February–March 1943, which depicts the Third Battle of Kharkov
US propaganda poster, 1942: Photo of smiling Russian soldier. US media also played a key role in shaping a positive image of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Nazi propaganda poster in Ukrainian; the headline reads: "German soldier is fighting for Europe". According to the introduction, the book examines, in part, the "romantic heroicization of the German army fighting to save Europe from a rapacious Communism".
Marching into Darkness
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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus is a book by the American historian Waitman Wade Beorn, published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. It discusses the participation
