Abstract
Hitler’s Atrocities Against Allied PoWs cannot be regarded as an academic study of the fate awaiting captured Allied servicemen and women. Its narrow focus, socio-political goal, and limited engagement with the historiography prevent it from serving as more than a survey text or springboard. Chinnery attempts to tie the individual fates to a larger argument that the German armed forces and their security force compatriots were systematically responsible for the abuses described in the book. While the individual cases are compelling and some have a clear connection to explicit policies, the book does not succeed in linking its other examples to a larger line of reasoning.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.3.1681
Recommended Citation
Heck, Timothy
(2019)
"Book Review: Hitler’s Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 13:
Iss.
3:
163-165.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.3.1681
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol13/iss3/13
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