2007
Cairn
Benoît Lemay, « Le feld-maréchal Erich von Manstein : un instrument docile dans une entreprise criminelle », Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah, ID : 10670/1.bubd6s
The man one generally considers as the most brilliant German strategist of the war (e. g. in the Campaign of France, 1940) was also a model of characteristic obsession of the Prussian military cast (von Manstein was the nephew of marshal of Hindenburg) who approved the worst measures possible against the civilians, in the name of authority respect and obedience. But perhaps even more in the name of a vision of the world fixed in anti-revolutionary German traditions which, from numerous points of view, was close to that of the Nazis’. Von Manstein, and with him an important part of the Wehrmacht, was an active accomplice of genocide.