The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality

The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality
AuthorWolfram Wette
Original titleDie Wehrmacht. Feindbilder, Vernichtungskrieg, Legenden [The Wehrmacht: Images of the Enemy, War of Extermination, Legends]
TranslatorDeborah Lucas Schneider
LanguageEnglish, German
GenreHistory; Historiography
PublisherS. Fischer Verlag (German edition)
Harvard University Press (English edition)
Publication date
2002
Publication placeUnited States
Published in English
2007
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0-674-02577-6

The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality is a 2002 book by German historian Wolfram Wette which discusses the Myth of the clean Wehrmacht. The original German-language book was translated into five languages; the English edition was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press. The book builds on Omer Bartov's 1985 study The Eastern Front, 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare. The book received a positive reception.


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