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Jeff Rutherford

@jeffcrutherford.bsky.social
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Historian of Modern Germany, the Second World War, and the German Army. Research focus on the German army's ideological, operational, and economic war against the Soviet Union. Teaches at Xavier University. Hook'em.

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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just so happens I’ve been looking at the fighting in Ukraine in late 1943 and I’d like to add this report from the commander of the 101st Jäger Division from December 1943:
A report on the German infantry from December 1943 detailing instances when German troops simply disobeyed orders for various combat missions from officers and NCOs.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In response to the plea of @reallyseansmith.bsky.social for more riffs on Bluesky, here is my driveway shoveling playlist.
A playlist of hard rock bands from the 1970s to the present.Riffs for days.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
All those years fighting fascism and then communism to create our own KZ Lager universe/Gulag archipelago.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Great opportunity to pick up The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies during Cornell's 50% off sale.
Book cover for The German-Soviet War
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Seems appropriate to visit Dachau following the US government’s deployment of state violence and repression against anyone who protests against it and its policies.
Dachau memorial that reads: “May the example of those who were exterminated here between 1939-1945 because they resisted Nazism help to unite the living for the defense of peace and freedom and in respect for their fellow man.”
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A previous @cornellupress.bsky.social author, David Harrisville, wrote chapter 3 on the German army's "moral bilingualism." This encouraged the troops to see themselves as the rightful rulers of the Soviet Union & used traditional moral concepts to convince the men of the righteousness of the cause.
30% off coupon for edited volume The German-Soviet War.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Edward Westermann's chapter 2 examines the relationship between the center & periphery in Latvia in 1941, focusing on the German murder of Jews in Liepaja. Tension between various German centers and peripheries complicates our understanding of how German policy evolved over the course of 1941.
Link to a 30% discount on the edited volume The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Chapter 1 is by the historian who has changed our understanding of Operation Barbarossa. David Stahel examines the 1941/42 winter crisis in Army Group Center at the operational level & revises the way Hitler's Halt Order and & army's response to it should be understood. @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The introduction to The German-Soviet War is an extended historiographical essay that I wrote examining how the war on the battlefield, in the rear, & in the construction of modern Europe has been understood since its conclusion. It focuses on German and English literature, & some Russian works too.
Book cover for The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies showing four German soldiers walking through the ruins of a Soviet town.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Very excited to announce the publication of a book I co-edited with Robert von Maier, The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies for 15 June 2025. Scan the QR code below & enter 09BCARD for 30% off. 17 contributors address various elements of the war & its aftermath. More details soon.
A book cover showing four German soldiers passing through the ruins of a devastated Soviet town in spring 1942. It's from the book "The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies."QR Code that brings one to the Cornell University Press page for the book. Enter 09BCARD in the shopping cart for a 30% discount.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Mookie Wilson >>>>
Dinosaurs believe in Mookie Wilson
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
@davidjroth.bsky.social There's a place in Wheeling, WV where patrons get to dine with "that guy" at every meal. Each table in the restaurant comes complete with various baseball cards from the 80s and 90s. Thought you should know.
"I remember that guy" baseball cards at a restaurant in Wheeling, WV.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Don't want anyone to feel left out, so here are some more Eastern Front/Eastern Front adjacent books.
A shelf of books on the German army and the eastern front.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Here is my primary eastern front shelf. There are some pretty good books on it, I think. If you have any questions, happy to answer them.
A collection of books on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
As this individual -- replete with a black steel pot helmet decorated with SS runes (and the Nazi eagle on other side) -- sitting in front of me at a light indicates, things are going just as you would think in West Virginia.
A SS helmeted loser on his motorcycle.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Yngwie who?
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Fall in the Ohio Valley, West Virginia.
Low level fog in the Ohio Valley amidst the colors of fall in West Virginia.
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Came back from the grocery store to find my dog apparently gearing up for today's Taylor Swift movie experience.
A German Shepherd/Akita mix sitting on the floor wearing a blue tutu.
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