RELUCTANT ACCOMPLICE: A WEHRMACHT SOLDIER'S LETTERS FROM THE EASTERN FRONT **FIRST EDITION**

JARAUSCH, KONRAD H.

ISBN 10: 0691140421 / ISBN 13: 9780691140421

Edité par Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011

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pp: 392. The memoirs of a German who was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during The Second World War. The book begins with the statement that the role of the Wehrmacht in The Holocaust is difficult to determine. In fact, the German Army assisted in many ways, including direct killings during the entire time they were invading, and retreating, from the Eastern Front. Other than that, the account concerns the actions of a man who really didn't want 'to be there'. Much of the text concerns his letters home, which were closely monitored. This is a fine copy in dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: RELUCTANT ACCOMPLICE: A WEHRMACHT SOLDIER'S LETTERS FROM THE EASTERN FRONT **FIRST EDITION**
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691140421
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691140421
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Poids: 0,73 kilogramme
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • MILITARY - THE SECOND WORLD WAR
  • BIOGRAPHIES

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Synopsis

An ordinary German soldier's letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II

Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs are chilling. They reveal the inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became reluctant accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its suffering victims, a bond that could transcend race, nationalism, and the enmity of war.

Reluctant Accomplice is also the powerful story of the son, who for decades refused to come to grips with these letters because he abhorred his father's nationalist politics. Only now, late in his life, is he able to cope with their contents--and he is by no means alone. This book provides rare insight into the so-called children of the war, an entire generation of postwar Germans who grew up resenting their past, but who today must finally face the painful legacy of their parents' complicity in National Socialism.

À propos de l'auteur

Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many books include Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century and Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century (both Princeton). He lives in Chapel Hill and Berlin.