War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945-东线战争：1941-1945年在俄国的德国士兵

作者：James Sidney Lucas

书名：War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945《东线战争：1941-1945年在俄国的德国士兵》

英文简介：One of the few books dedicated strictly to the German war against Soviet Russia on the eastern front; the largest front of the war. As such it deserves special attention to WW2 buffs and does have information i have not seen elsewhere. The personal accounts of the German soldiers are what i find most interesting...over and over you read the word "sauberkeit" (cleanliness) many Germans were shocked at how primitive the russians had to live day to day. You do not find many accounts of hard core nazis here; come to save Europe from bolshevism or the like; and not too much racial hatred or arrogance either; just soldiers doing their duty; many only to die on the frozen steppes for a futile cause. The accounts are those of thinking men; not monsters or savage killers primarily and the thing about most of their accountsi s their ordinariness. The German troops were the most part Christians and decent men; (I am aware of the "Einsatzgruppen" and SS units that followed along behind the army; wiping out komiisars and racial "undesirables" but these were the exception and abhorred as much by most front line troops as they were later among the allies. The Germans killed the Russians when they had to; often helped the Russian civilians if they could; but very few felt they were fulfilling some racial duty of "exterminating the untermenschen" or any of the other nazi boiler plate espoused by Goebels and the Nazi fruitcakes during the final "drive to the east" that resulted in Germany's destruction.