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Huber, Christian

 
9780750998611: German Accounts from the Dying Days of the Third Reich
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 075099861X ISBN 13 : 9780750998611
Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War to be made widely available to an English-speaking audience. This is hardly surprising given that interest in these important documents has only recently surfaced in Germany, where a long process of coming to terms with the past, or Vergangenheitsbewältigung, has taken place.

Unlike other historical depictions of the fall of the Third Reich, Dying Days of the Third Reich presents the authentic voices of those German soldiers who fought on the front line. Throughout we are witness to the kind of bravery, ingenuity and, ultimately, fear that we are so familiar with from the many Allied accounts of this time. Their sense of confusion and terror is palpable as Nazi Germany finally collapses in May 1945, with soldiers fleeing to the American victors instead of the Russians in the hope of obtaining better treatments as a prisoner of war.

This collection of first-hand accounts includes the stories of German soldiers fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front; of Horst Messer, who served on the last East Prussian panzer tank but was captured and spent four years in Russian captivity at Riga; Hans Obermeier, who recounts his capture on the Czech front and escape from Siberia; and a moving account of an anonymous Wehrmacht soldier in Slovakia given orders to execute Russian prisoners.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christian Huber was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Germany, in 1964. He has worked journalist for twenty years and has published numerous accounts from the Second World War. He fulfilled his military service at the Luftwaffe Officers' School, leaving in the rank of Captain (Reserve). He is the publisher of a weekly newspaper for south-east Bavaria.

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Éditeur
The History Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
075099861X
ISBN 13 
9780750998611
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
192
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