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Author:

Neitzel, Sönke.

Title:

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.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 437 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.
Prisoners of war--Germany--Attitudes--Sources.
Prisoners of war--Great Britain--Attitudes--Sources.
World War, 1939-1945--Anecdotes.
Eavesdropping--Great Britain.
Soldiers--Germany--Attitudes--Sources.
Germany--History--History--20th century--Sources.

Other Authors:

Welzer, Harald.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-412) and index.

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.

Summary:

A compendium of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs, secretly recorded by the Allies and recently declassified, offers insight into the mindset of World War II German soldiers.

ISBN:

0307958124
9780307958129

LCCN:

2012005744

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)