Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
POST WORLD WAR II MYTH
Legend of the Clean Wehrmacht; Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht; Clean Wehrmacht; Honorable Wehrmacht; Honourable Wehrmacht; Reputation of the Wehrmacht; Wehrmacht war crimes denialism; Clean Wehrmacht myth
The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the negationist notion that the regular German armed forces (the Wehrmacht) were not involved in the Holocaust or other war crimes during World War II. The myth, heavily promoted by German authors and military personnel after World War II, completely denies the culpability of the German military command in the planning and perpetration of war crimes.