Jeff Rutherford
Wheeling Jesuit University, History, Faculty Member
Programme of the Conference "Fascist Warfare: A Concept to Understand Fascism and Total War in the First Half of the Twentieth Century", that will be held in the Sala Plató, Pati Manning, Barcelona (Spain), on March, 16-17th of 2017.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Japanese Studies, War Studies, and 16 moreFascism, Civil War, Croatian History, Second World War, Social History, Spanish Civil War, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Warfare, Nazi Germany, Italian fascism, Nazism, Francoism, Japanese empire, Ustasha, NDH (History), and Japanese fascism
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an... more
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal practices -- became most obvious. Germany's military aggression and overtly ideological conduct, culminating in genocide against Soviet Jewry and the decimation of the Soviet population through planned starvation and brutal antipartisan policies, distinguished Operation Barbarossa -- the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union -- from all previous military campaigns in modern European history.