Abstract
The most conspicuous instance of resistance to the regime in the Third Reich is arguably the July 1944 Putsch attempt. This act of rebellion by a number of officers has been the focus of a rich literature concerned with the technical, personal, political, and moral implications of a coup d'etat against a criminal regime at a time of grave military crisis.1 Conversely, one of the most striking features of the Nazi dictatorship is the remarkable loyalty to the regime manifested by the Wehrmacht's rank and file and by the junior officer corps throughout the war. The following pages will attempt to sketch out the boundaries of collaboration and resistance in the German army by exploring three separate but related spheres of the soldiers' existence at the front: the formal sphere of military discipline and martial law; the personal sphere of survival, fear, comradeship, and family; and the ideological sphere, molded by preconscription and army indoctrination.
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