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A compendium of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs, secretly recorded by the Allies and recently declassified, offers insight into the mindset of World War II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