Through Hell for Hitler A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front With the Wehrmacht
Language: English
Published by Casemate, Havertown, Pennsylvania, 2001
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"Eighteen-year-old Henry Metelmann joined a German Panzer division in 1941, a committed National Socialist and former member of the Hitler Youth.The first euphoric stages of that campaign saw the Wehrmacht sweeping all before it, but as the German forces struck deep into the Russian heartland, Metelmann began to question the justness of this savage war." Ships same or next business day. Black and white photographs. Ends of spine are very lightly bumped and/or rubbed; otherwise in fine condition. Dust jacket corners are lightly rubbed; protected in archival cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 208 pages.
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- Title
- Through Hell for Hitler A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front With the Wehrmacht
- Author
- Metelmann, Henry
- Publisher
- Casemate, Havertown, Pennsylvania
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0971170916
- ISBN 13
- 9780971170919
The dramatic account based on the personal experiences of a conscript Wehrmacht soldier who, as a Panzer driver. fought in the Crimea, at the Siege of Leningrad and Kursk, the largest, most * and long-lasting land battle in modern history.
Detail:
The author describes his participation in the two main phases of Operation Barbarossa, namely the advance of the powerful German forces into the heart of Russia followed by their enforced 'Napoleonic' retreat after the battle of Stalingrad.
It portrays the gradual awakening in the mind of a young * Youth 'educated' soldier of a Panzer Division to the truth of the criminal character of what he is involved in.
Having in mind that about 9 out of 10 German soldiers who died in WWII were killed in Russia, it throws some light on the largely unreported heroic sacrifices of Soviet soldiers and civilians often against seemingly hopeless odds, without which Europe might well have fallen to fascism.
It does not deal so much with grand strategies, tactics and military technicalities as with the human involvement of ordinary people from both sides having been caught up in that enormity of a tragedy, that epic struggle in Russia.
It throws light on the chasm which existed between officers and men in the sharply class-divided Wehrmacht with most of the top rank officers having been drawn from the old imperial aristocracy.
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