German Accounts from the Dying Days of the Third Reich

Christian Huber, Geoffrey Brooks

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English

The History Press Ltd
01 June 2022

True war & combat stories; Military history; Second World War

First-hand accounts from the last days of the Third Reich: these are honest and striking accounts from the front line.

It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War to be made widely available to an English-speaking audience. This is hardly surprising given that interest in these important documents has only recently surfaced in Germany, where a long process of coming to terms with the past, or Vergangenheitsbewältigung, has taken place.

Unlike other historical depictions of the fall of the Third Reich, Dying Days of the Third Reich presents the authentic voices of those German soldiers who fought on the front line. Throughout we are witness to the kind of bravery, ingenuity and, ultimately, fear that we are so familiar with from the many Allied accounts of this time. Their sense of confusion and terror is palpable as Nazi Germany finally collapses in May 1945, with soldiers fleeing to the American victors instead of the Russians in the hope of obtaining better treatments as a prisoner of war.

This collection of first-hand accounts includes the stories of German soldiers fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front; of Horst Messer, who served on the last East Prussian panzer tank but was captured and spent four years in Russian captivity at Riga; Hans Obermeier, who recounts his capture on the Czech front and escape from Siberia; and a moving account of an anonymous Wehrmacht soldier in Slovakia given orders to execute Russian prisoners.

AUTHOR: Christian Huber was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Germany, in 1964. He has worked journalist for twenty years and has published numerous accounts from the Second World War. He fulfilled his military service at the Luftwaffe Officers' School, leaving in the rank of Captain (Reserve). He is the publisher of a weekly newspaper for south-east Bavaria.

By: Christian Huber
Translated by: Geoffrey Brooks
Imprint: The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780750998611
ISBN 10: 075099861X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

CHRISTIAN HUBER was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Germany, in 1964. He has worked journalist for twenty years and has published numerous accounts from the Second World War. He fulfilled his military service at the Luftwaffe Officers’ School, leaving in the rank of Captain (Reserve). He is the publisher of a weekly newspaper for south-east Bavaria.