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Soldaten : on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs / Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.

Author/creator Neitzel, Sönke
Other author/creatorWelzer, Harald.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st American ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Descriptionx, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleSoldaten. English
Contents What the soldiers discussed -- The soldiers' world -- Fighting, killing, and dying -- Frame of reference : annihilation -- Sex -- Technology -- Faith in victory -- Ideology -- Success -- Frame of reference : war -- How national socialist was the Wehrmacht's war? -- War as work -- Appendix : the surveillance protocols.
Abstract Though initially recorded by British intelligence with the intention of gaining information that might be useful for the Allied war effort, the matters discussed in these conversations ultimately proved to be limited in that regard. But they would supply a unique and profoundly important window into the mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general, almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war. It is a myth these transcripts unequivocally debunk.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [397]-412) and index.
LanguageTranslation of: Soldaten : Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben. Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Verlag, 2011.
LCCN 2012005744
ISBN9780307958129
ISBN0307958124
Stock numberRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975

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