Death March Through Russia
eBook - ePub

Death March Through Russia

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Death March Through Russia

About this book

This World War II memoir by a Nazi soldier details his unimaginable experience as a German prisoner-of-war in the Soviet Union.
 
Lothar Hermann grew up in Bavaria, going through the RAD (Nazi Labor Service) before being conscripted into a Wehrmacht Mountain Division (the Gebirgsdivision) in 1940. He participated in Germany's advance through southern Ukraine in 1941 and, in 1944, was arrested in Romania while retreating to Germany. The Romanians passed him onto the Soviets, who placed him in a forced labor camp, where he watched two-thirds of prisoners around him die. In 1949, Herrmann was finally released to Germany and returned to Bavaria.
 
Three million German troops were taken prisoner by the Red Army and around two-thirds of them survived to return to Germany in 1949 like Hermann, but their stories are little known. Klaus Willmann draws on interviews he conducted with Herrmann, to recount these astonishing recollections in the first-person. Depicting the challenges of growing up in Nazi Bavaria to becoming a Soviet prisoner-of-war, this is a gripping and enlightening account from a necessary but rarely explored perspective.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Translator’s Note
  6. Foreword by Roger Moorhouse
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Apprentice and Journeyman
  9. Chapter 2 At the Reich Labour Camp
  10. Chapter 3 How We Became Soldiers
  11. Chapter 4 On Sick Leave
  12. Chapter 5 To the Eastern Front
  13. Chapter 6 Rude Awakening
  14. Chapter 7 Forced Labour by the Sea of Azov
  15. Chapter 8 An Unknown Destination
  16. Chapter 9 The Escape
  17. Chapter 10 An Endless Expanse
  18. Chapter 11 Shattered Hopes
  19. Chapter 12 Contact with the Homeland
  20. Chapter 13 Returning Home
  21. Chapter 14 A Difficult Beginning