Are there any good books ever written about the life and times of a WWII German Nazi soldier?

Question

Are there any good books ever written about the life and times of a WWII German Nazi soldier?

Answer 1

There is a fairly new book called "April in Paris," by Michael Wallner, that is about a German Nazi Soldier in occupied france. It is very good.

Answer 2

What do you mean by Nazi? Specifically, Waffen SS? Most of the German soldiers were not Nazis.

If you are talking about German soldiers, I would recommend the works of Hans Hellmut Kirst. Gunner Asch, What became of Gunner Asch, Officer Factory, the Night of the Generals.

Your explanation just sows more confusion. While most of them were not not Nazis, those who were could be numbered in the hundreds of thousands. So do you mean, a former believer in the Nazi ideology who got disillusioned?

If, as I suspect, accuracy isn't important, you could read the pornography of violence novels by Sven Hassel. The author claims he was a member of a punishment batallion but in fact was in the Danish auxiliary police (ie trusties) at the time.

Answer 3

Gunter Grass's new memoir "Peeling the Onion." Here's a bit of the review from Publisher's Weekly (found on Amazon)



"The German edition of this memoir by Nobel Prize–winning novelist Grass caused a stir with its revelations about the author's youthful service in the Waffen SS combat unit during the last months of WWII. According to his deliberately disjointed, impressionistic account of the war, Grass never fired a shot and spent his time fleeing both the Russians and German military police hunting for deserters, but he dutifully shoulders a joint responsibility for Nazi war crimes and a guilt and shame that gnaw, gnaw, ceaselessly."

Answer 4

http://www.wikipedia.org



Check out "The Machine Gunners," referenced in Wiki, the theme of which you can find if you enter that title into the search box.

The story won a Carnegie Medal in 1975, and further honors by the Carnegie group as one of the ten best childrens' books of the past 70 years.

And yes, it is about at least a portion of the life of a World War Two German Nazi soldier.

It's a great book, interesting on many levels, and so interesting to adults as well as children (children who are at least 12 or so...)

Luck--

Answer 5

you could view this because of the fact the German soldier performing as someone who sees what evil issues his military is ending up & is performing for the extra helpful good of humanity interior the international, somebody to be widespread for his braveness below severe circumstances - it is usually how maximum enemies of the Nazi military would see it or you additionally can see him as a defector, responsible of treason & spying & contributing to the loss of life of his very own united states of america. in case you're taking a step back & ask your self this question if it have been you in a militia struggling with on your united states of america would your answer be the comparable? would you be satisfied to be in charge for the annihilation of the rustic which you have been born & raised in or would you proceed struggling with the enemy no rely in case you believed in what you have been doing became into correct or no longer? magnificent question & very complicated quandary!....

Answer 6

no not really. well thats from my point of view. but maybe to other people it is.