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The Dying Days of the Third Reich

- German Accounts from World War II
Af: Christian Huber Engelsk Hardback

The Dying Days of the Third Reich

- German Accounts from World War II
Af: Christian Huber Engelsk Hardback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 176
ISBN-13: 9780750966979
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0750966971
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 4 jul 2016
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 160mm
Højde: 239mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 4 jul 2016
Forfatter(e): Christian Huber
Forfatter(e) Christian Huber

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9780750966979

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 176

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 160mm

Højde 239mm

Udg. Dato 4 jul 2016

Oplagsdato 4 jul 2016

Forlag The History Press Ltd