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'The Virtuous Wehrmacht' explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly demonstrates that this myth of innocence was created during the course of the war itself - and did not arise as a postwar whitewashing of events.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Justification (Ethics) --- Ethics --- Operation Barbarossa, 1941 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Campaigns --- Atrocities --- Moral and ethical aspects --- ethics and the Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht crimes, the clean Wehrmacht myth, how soldiers explain their crimes, wehrmacht and nazi ideology.