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100 1 $aHuber, Christian,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe dying days of the Third Reich :$bGerman accounts from World War II /$cChristian Huber ; translated by Geoffrey Brooks.
250 $aEnglish edition.
264 1 $aStroud, Gloucestershire :$bHistory Press,$c2016.
300 $a174 pages ;$c24 cm
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505 0 $aIntroduction by Roger Moorhouse -- Prologue -- Summer Night: Peter Stuffer, Obergefreiter, from Ruhpolding, Easter Front, Army Group South -- Hunted Down: Hans Klinger, Waffen-SS NCO, Eastern Front, Army Group South (Wasserburg) -- Why We Were Fighting: Anonymous Paratrooper NCO Eastern Front Army Group North -- From the Ski Slopes to Siberia: Hans Obermeier, NCO, Eastern Front, Army Group Center, Born Rosenheim 1925 -- Home and Yet Betrayed: Helmut Haubner, Sergeant, from Schnaitsee Bavaria, 1945 -- Last of the Panzers at Libau: Horst Messer, Corporal, Eastern Front, Army Group North, from Bad Feilnbach -- War Voyages on the Rhine: Joseph Rass, Senior NCO, Western Front, from Kolbermoor -- Forester ub Gekk: Karl Hubner, Hermann Goring Regiment Driver/Flak-Gunner, Eastern Front, Army Group Center from Amberg -- The Old Man of Gomornanas: Memories of an Unknown Soldier, Eastern Front, Army Group South -- Cemeteries: Gerd Rube, Second Lieutenant from Rimsting, Final Battle for Berlin
520 $aIt 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. -- Provided by publisher.
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