The war in the German rear. Occupation authorities

The attitude of the German army to the population in the occupied territories of the USSR caused a response - the creation of resistance detachments. The partisans blew up bridges, launched the echelons, liberated the prisoners, destroyed the invaders, and seized military equipment. The very word “partisans” inspired the terror of the Wehrmacht leadership, forcing him to perform even more rude actions against the local population.
The work of Erich Hesse is the colossal documentary: orders, instructions of the German military and political leadership in the conduct of measures to destroy the partisan movement, military diaries, reports of the generalized experience of military operations, memoirs of participants in events and other documents. The author explores the nature of the guerrilla warfare, the structure of formations, their leadership, goals, objectives and forms of fighting against the invaders. Finally, Hesse analyzes the results of the partisan war and its significance in the defensive struggle of the Soviet armed forces against the Wehrmacht