Bibliograph

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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-412) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Soldaten

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

772138046

Responsibility statement

Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase

Sub title

on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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