The Wehrmacht : History , Myth , Reality is a 2002 book by German historian Wolfram Wette which dealt with the issue of Wehrmacht 's criminality during World War II and the legend of its " clean hands " . The original German-language book was translated into five languages ; the English edition was published in 2006 by Harvard University Press . Building on Omer Bartov 's 1985 study '' The Eastern Front , 1941 – 1945 : German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare '' , the book deconstructs the myth of the clean Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht 's criminality
War crimes of the Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality