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Название:
Frontsoldaten
Автор:
Stephen G. Fritz
Издательство:
The University Press of Kentucky
Жанр:
История / military_history / на английском языке
Год:
1997
Город:
Lexington
ISBN:
9780813127811
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Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot “the actions of simple soldiers…. I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life.”
In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz provides the definitive account of the everyday war of the German front soldier. The personal documents of these soldiers, most from the Russian front, where the majority of German infantrymen saw service, paint a richly textured portrait of the Landser that illustrates the complexity and paradox of his daily life.
Although clinging to a self-image as a decent fellow, the German soldier nonetheless committed terrible crimes in the name of National Socialism. When the war was finally over, and his country lay in ruins, the Landser faced a bitter truth: all his exertions and sacrifices had been in the name of a deplorable regime that had committed unprecedented crimes. With chapters on training, images of combat, living conditions, combat stress, the personal sensations of war, the bonds of comradeship, and ideology and motivation, Fritz offers a sense of immediacy and intimacy, revealing war through the eyes of these self-styled “little men.”
A fascinating look at the day-to-day life of German soldiers, this is a book not about war but about men. It will be vitally important for anyone interested in World War II, German history, or the experiences of common soldiers throughout the world.

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42. Letters of Wolfgang Kluge (13 Sept. 1943) and Bernhard Ritter (14 Aug. 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 286, 49–50.

43. Letter of Harry Mielert (7 July 1941), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 13; letters of Siegbert Stehmann (5 Jan. 1942), Kurt Reuber (5 Dec. 1942), Günter von Scheven (2 Sept. 1941), and Ludwig Laumen (4 June 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 417, 190, 112, 134–35.

44. Soldier quoted in Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War, p. 162; Knappe and Brusaw, Soldat, pp. 194–95; letter of Harry Mielert (7 July 1941), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 13; Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, pp. 53, 71, 305.

45. Heinrich, Cross of Iron, pp. 26, 47, 67.

46. Letters of Harry Mielert (1 and 15 July 1941), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 12–13, 15; Lucas, War on the Eastern Front, p. 74.

47. Grupe, Jahrgang 1916, p. 247; letter of Siegbert Stehmann (5 Jan. 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 417.

48. Letters of Hans Schmitz (23 Feb. and Spring 1941), Friedrich Gädeke, and Hans Pietzcker (24 Dec. 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 36–37, 374, 213.

49. Letter of Fritz Trautwein (28 July 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 225.

50. Letters of Walther Weber (25 July 1942), Hans Schmitz (23 Feb. 1941), Theodor Kinzelbach (29 June 1941), and Wilhelm Heupel (1 June 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 53, 36, 229–230, 141.

51. Letters of Ludwig Laumen (19 July 1942), Alois Dwenger (25 Nov. 1941), and Anselm Radbruch (2 Oct. 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 138, 122, 174.

52. Letters of Harry Mielert (3 June and 1 Oct. 1941, 2 May 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 11, 17–18, 76; Curzio Malaparte, Volga Rises in Europe, p. 102.

53. Letters of Hans Nicol (26 April 1944), Will Thomas (21 Aug. and 16 Oct. 1941), and Günter von Scheven (6 March 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 338, 96, 114.

54. Letter of Walther Weber (9 Jan. 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 140; Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, p. 27; letters of Harry Mielert (16 Dec. 1942, 28 Jan. and 3 Feb. 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 41, 47, 50–51; letter of Prosper Schücking, in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbrief, p. 265; letter of anonymous soldier, in Schneider and Gullans, Last Letters, p. 93.

55. Letters of Harry Mielert (28 Jan. and 8 March 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 47, 59.

56. Letter of Harry Mielert (18 May 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 81; Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, p. 307.

57. Hansmann, Vorüber—nicht vorbei, p. 27.

58. Letter of Harry Mielert (5 Feb. 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 51; Grupe, Jahrgang 1916, pp. 159, 161.

59. Hansmann, Vorüber—nicht vorbei, pp. 86–87.

60. Letter of Harry Mielert (28 Jan. 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 47.

61. Letter of Harry Mielert (8 July 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, RussischeErde, p. 85; letters of Helmut Vethake (5 June 1943), Wolfgang Döring (8 Oct. 1939) and Horstmar Seitz (26 April 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 237, 16, 281–82.

62. Letter of Günter von Scheven (2 Sept. 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 112.

Chapter 6. The Many Faces of War

1. Letters of Günter von Scheven (6 March 1942) and Siegfried Roemer (4 Dec. 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 114, 332.

2. Holmes, Firing Line, p. 142; Sajer, Forgotten Soldier p. 316; letters of Hermann Stracke (22 June 1941), Kurt Reuber (7 Jan. 1943) and Helmut Gädeke (10 March 1939), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 52, 206, 370; letters of Karl Fuchs (9 Feb. 1940 and 24 May 1941), in Richardson, Sieg Heil! pp. 50, 104–5.

3. Letter of Captain F.M. (June 1940) in Buchbender and Sterz, Andere Gesicht, pp. 59 no. 69, 67 no. 87; letter of Harry Mielert (19 Oct. 1941), in Gerda Mielert-Pflugradt, ed. Russische Erde. Kriegsbriefe aus Rußland. (Stuttgart: Reclam-Verlag, 1950), p. 22.

4. Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, p. 11; Hansmann, Vorüber—nicht vorbei, p. 11; letters of Ernst Kleist (14 May 1940) and Walther Happich (22 Nov. 1944) and diary entry of Klaus Wilms (Oct. 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 24, 454, 62; Grupe, Jahrgang 1916, p. 178; letter of Private H.S. (4 May 1941), in Buchbender and Sterz, Andere Gesicht, p. 67 no. 87.

5. Letters of Harry Mielert (1 Dec. and 9 Dec. 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 111, 114; letters of Eberhard Wendebourg (5 Oct. 1941) and Günter von Scheven (6 March 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 106, 114; letter of Sergeant W.H. (30 Jan. 1942), in Buchbender and Sterz, Andere Gesicht no. 155, p. 92.

6. Letters of Kurt Reuber (3 Dec. 1942), Gerhard Meyer (23 July 1941) and Horstmar Seitz (1 Aug. 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 189–91, 210, 283; letters of Harry Mielert (7 July 1941, 7 March 1943, and 7 Nov. 1941), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 14, 58, 26.

7. Letter of Private K.P. (14 Dec. 1942), in Buchbender and Sterz, Andere Gesicht, p. 99 no. 168; Schneider and Gullans, Last Letters, p. 111; letters of Helmut Pabst (8 March 1943), Ansgar Bollweg (Nov. 1943), Siegbert Stehmann (13 Sept. 1944), and Siegfried Roemer (9 Dec. 1943), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 257, 303, 422–23, 334; Buchbender and Sterz, Andere Gesicht, p. 17.

8. Letters of Meinhart Freiherr von Guttenberg (mid-Sept. 1939) and Will Thomas (2 Jan. 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 12,99; letter of Harry Mielert (31 Jan. 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 48; letters of Kurt Reuber (18 Dec. 1942) and Harald Fliegauf (11 April 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, kriegsbriefe, pp. 192, 270.

9. Letters of Siegfried Roemer (4 Nov. 1941), Harald Henry (21 Oct. 1941), and Max Aretin-Eggert (13 Aug. 1944), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 331, 85, 364; letter of Harry Mielert (21 Jan. 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, p. 47; letter of Wolfgang Döring (7 Dec. 1940), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 18; Willi Heinrich, Cross of Iron, p. 214; letter of Harald Henry (18 Oct. 1941), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 82.

10. Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, p. 446; letter of anonymous soldier (Aug. 1944), quoted in Kretschmer and Vogel, “Feldpostbriefe,” p. 106; letter of Klaus Löscher (27–28 March 1944), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, pp. 328–29.

11. Letter of Harry Mielert (18 April 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 70–71; Heinrich, Cross of Iron, p. 177.

12. Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, pp. 363–64.

13. Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, pp. 174, 324, 239; letter of Harry Mielert (23 March 1943), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 64–65.

14. Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, p. 173; Grupe, Jahrgang 1916, pp. 200–201.

15. Letters of Harry Mielert (14 Dec, 30 and 27 Nov. 1942), in Mielert-Pflugradt, Russische Erde, pp. 40, 39; Grupe, Jahrgang 1916, p. 185; Sajer, Forgotten Soldier, p. 229; Prüller, Diary, p. 70; Pöppel, Heaven and Hell, p. 182; letter of Martin Lindner (26 July 1942), in Bähr and Bähr, Kriegsbriefe, p. 168. One particular terror of the Russian winter nights was, of course, was their sheer length: in many areas, darkness might well last from 3:00 P.M. to 9:00 A.M.