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Looking for book giving the german perspective of WWII.?
I've been helping my niece study her social studies and what I saw as a kid as cut and dried facts are now showing to be complete propaganda in regard to World War II. The more I research the more I realise all the books I've read on the war only give the allies and Jewish perspective on the war, and most of the allies information is factually incorrect but worked well to rally the masses.
I'm looking to find a book, preferably written by a non-Jewish German (historian?), who gave give the German perspective to WWII and hopefully some details into their beliefs and opinions of the times.
Does anyone know of a good book? I'd prefer it to be translated into English but I may be able to muddle through a German copy.
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- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
OK Trust me on this. read a book called "I Flew for the Fuhrer" by Heinz Knoke.
Although basically an autobiography of his time in the Luftwaffe it gives great insight into the mindset of the average German of the time.
If you are raised in a defeated country and then a man comes along to give you hope and builds your country back up you may do extraordinary things to further that cause.
What "facts" are you talking about from the allied side? I have spent 30 years researching WW2 from official documents and will be happy to confirm historical accuracy of anything you care to mention.
Ray
Source(s): 30 + years of WW2 research - Anonymous1 decade ago
How about "Through Hell for Hitler" by Henry Metelmann? It's the autobiographical account of a working-class German who grew up as Germany became the Third Reich, joined the Hitler Youth and eventually the army, fighting in the USSR from spring 1942 to autumn 1943. He was wounded in action and eventually posted west, where he surrendered to the Americans in March 1945. He spent the next three years as a prisoner in American and British camps, and settled in the UK upon his release. The book gives an excellent narrative of life in Germany before and in the early part of the war, and of the way Germans came to terms with the death of Hitler and the destruction of Nazism. It also contains some excellent descriptions of the difficult and confused fighting north of Stalingrad in November 1942.
