World War Two (2018)

Season 0 Episode 542

How Allied and Nazi Generals Created the Clean Wehrmacht Myth

0.07 / Nov / 2024•25m

After the fall of the Third Reich, many of Hitler’s generals are convicted as war criminals by the Allies and condemned to prison and disgrace. Yet, within a few years, the Western Powers embrace them Cold War partners against the Soviet Union. In this new alliance, they rewrite history and create the enduring myth of the ‘clean Wehrmacht’.