Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying

On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded & recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique & profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy & the military in general — almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war. Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations — & the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them — from a historical & psychological perspective. In reconstucting the frameworks & situations behind these conversations, they've created a powerful narrative of wartime experience.

• Author
• Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, Jefferson Chase

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 448

• Publisher
• Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, Inc.

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-307-95812-9

• EAN
• 9780307958129

• Genres
• history, war, germany, psychology

• Release date
• 2012