Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front
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Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front by Luis Raffeiner
Thought-provoking eyewitness account of the Second World War on the Eastern Front by a common German soldier.
Luis Raffeiner grew up in Karthaus in the South Tyrolean Schnalstal. In 1939, aged 22, after serving in the Italian army, he transferred to the Wehrmacht. As a tank mechanic in a unit of assault guns, he went to war against the Soviet Union in 1941\. He was captured by the Red Army, survived being held as a prisoner of war in the Caucasus and, in 1947, returned to the Tyrol. He then worked as a master plumber at a brewery and set up his own company. Late in his life he recorded his wartime experiences which were published in German and are now available for the first time in English in this edition. Afterword by Hannes Heer, a distinguished German historian best known for his work on the controversial Wehrmacht exhibition in the 1990s. Although some of its exhibits were criticized at the time, it showed that the German army on the Eastern Front was involved in war crimes. In 2001 the revised exhibition was relaunched with the title Crimes of the German Wehrmacht: Dimensions of a War of Annihilation 1941-1944'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399097703 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399097709 |
| Title | Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front |
| Author | Luis Raffeiner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-11-22 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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