Stalin's War of Extermination
Stalin's War of Extermination describes the German army's attempt to prevent Stalin from conquering Europe. The work was written published in May 2001 (English Edition) by Joachim Hoffmann. Hoffmann was a German academic and researcher with the German military archives.
Contents
- The arrangement of chapters is as follows:
- Chapter 1: May 5, 1941: Stalin Proclaims the War of Aggression
- Chapter 2: June 22, 1941: Hitler Preempts Stalin’s Attack
- Chapter 3: Soviet Soldiers Were Driven into Combat by Terror
- Chapter 4: “A Fighter in the Red Army Does Not Surrender” Soviet Soldiers Must Not Allow Themselves to be Taken Captive. Prevention of Flight Forward
- Chapter 5: Stalin’s Terror Apparatus The Creation of “Mass Heroism” and “Soviet Patriotism”
- Chapter 6: The “Great Patriotic War” ; Soviet Propaganda and its Tools
- Chapter 7: Responsibility and Those Responsible The Atrocities on Both Sides
- Chapter 8: “Hitlerite Villains” Soviet Crimes Are Attributed to the Germans
- Chapter 9: Criminalization of the Wehrmacht Racial and National Anti-German Incitement
- Chapter 10: All Along the Front, the First Prisoners of War Are Murdered as Early as June 22, 1941
- Chapter 11: “To the Last Man” The Endless Murders of Prisoners of War
- Chapter 12: “No Mercy, No Leniency” Atrocities of the Red Army upon Entering German Territory
- Chapter 13: “Woe to Thee, Germany!” The Crimes Continue
- Conclusions
- Appendix
Stalin's War of Extermination documents Stalin's war against the German army. Based on the study of German and Russian military records, Joachim Hoffmann writes about atrocities committed by the Red Army against soldiers and civilians. The atrocities which are described include the torture, murder, and rape of various civilian populations of Eastern Europe as a means of control, punishment for failing to follow orders or attack the Germans, or simply to remove detractors and potential sympathizers to the German Army. Hoffmann's work states that this was official Soviet policy, as ordered by Comrade J.V. Stalin.
