Isbn: 9781682475140 - u-boat commander oskar kusch: anatomy of a nazi-era betrayal and judicial murder (studies in naval history and sea power) (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 10.5 inches by 7.5 inches. xxv, [1], 340, [2] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by Erich Topp. A native of Lübeck, Germany, with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Eric Rust joined the Baylor faculty in 1984 and is a History Professor at Baylor. He has also been on the World Cultures II faculty team since the inception of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. He teaches survey courses in World History as well as advanced-level and graduate courses on the Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern Europe, European Expansion, and Historiography. His research centers on maritime and naval history since the Renaissance, with a specialization on the German navies of the 19th and 20th centuries. Naval Officers under Hitler (Praeger, 1991) was the first of his numerous publications in this field. He completed a biography of Lt. Oskar Kusch, the only German U-boat commander in World War II to be tried and executed for remarks and activities critical of the regime. Oskar Heinz Kusch (6 April 1918 12 May 1944) was a German naval officer and U-boat commander in World War II who was executed for comments critical of the Nazi state. On 12 January 1944, Kusch was denounced in a report to the 3rd U-boat Flotilla. The trial against Kusch began on 26 January 1944 in Kiel at the Court of the Higher Command of Submarine Training chaired by Karl-Heinrich Hagemann. On the evening of 26 January, Kusch was sentenced to death. On 12 May 1944, Kusch was executed by firing squad in Kiel. To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipperbright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentricand a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace. To most of his officers Kusch came across as someone very differenta Nazi-hating intellectual with an artistic bent given to lengthy criticisms of the regime, its leaders and its propaganda, a suspected coward and potential traitor unfit for command. Early in 1944, after his second patrol under Kusch, his executive officer, a reservist with a doctorate in law and member of the Nazi party, denounced him on charges of sedition and cowardice. A hastily arranged court-martial cleared Kusch of the cowardice accusation but sentenced him to death on purely ideological grounds for "undermining the fighting spirit" of his boat, even though the prosecutor had only recommended a ten-year jail sentence. Abandoned by all but his closest friends and relatives, coldly sacrificed by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, unwilling to plead for mercy, and to the end tormented by a naval legal bureaucracy acting in collusion with the brown regime, Oskar Kusch was executed in May 1944. This study, the first scholarly work on Kusch in English, traces his career and ordeal from his upbringing in Berlin to his tragic death and beyond, including the fifty-year struggle to rehabilitate his name and restore his honor in a postwar Germany long loath to confront the darker dimensions of its past. The passing of the wartime generation and the emergence of a new school of historians dedicated to critical research and inspired historiography have finally combined to rectify our picture of the Kriegsmarine and to appreciate the sacrifice of men like Oskar Kusch.…

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Softcover. Zustand: gut. 2020. U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch. Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder. In englischer Sprache. pages.