Soldaten On Fighting, Killing, and Dying - The Secret WWII Transcripts of German Pows

Name: Soldaten On Fighting, Killing, and Dying - The Secret WWII Transcripts of German Pows
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ISBN: 9780307958129

ISBN-10: 0307958124

ISBN-13: 9780307958129

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sï¿½nke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, Jefferson Chase

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A trove of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs—secretly recorded by the Allies—reveals the extent of their brutality and changes our understanding of the mind-set of the German soldier during World War II.On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/25/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Sï¿½nke Neitzel is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, having also held positions at the universities of Glasgow, Saarbrï¿½cken, Bern and Mainz.. He is the author of seven books, including Tapping Hitler's Generals and Soldaten.



Prologues


Author's Note


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 Surveilliance Protocols


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index