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Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Tapes of German POWs by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer |
German POWs' conversations were routinely recorded by British intelligence officers and, with the transcripts being recently de-classified, these provide a new primary source for both a historian and a social psychologist. Examining the soldiers own views of their experiences and attitudes and how being a 'soldier' changes behaviour, it's a compelling and yet very difficult read, horrific in many parts and sadly lacking any sign of those redemptive flashes of humanity beloved of the movies.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 102 Autumn 2021 ) |
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