Wehrmacht veterans had a prominent role in the Western historiography of Operation Barbarossa until the opening of Soviet archives in the 1990s. /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov and /u/commiespaceinvader have previously answered:

• Did the Rommel Myth and Clean Wehrmacht Myth (and others) pushed after World War II come from Government level or Academia?

• Why do English language speakers frequently use German to describe Germany during WWII?

/u/kieslowskifan has previously answered How important were ex-Wehrmacht in the Bundeswehr and NVA?

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