Title Soldaten : on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs / Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Edition	1st American ed.
Description	x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-412) and index.
Contents	What the soldiers discussed -- The soldiers' world -- Fighting, killing, and dying -- Frame of reference : annihilation -- Sex -- Technology -- Faith in victory -- Ideology -- Success -- Frame of reference : war -- How national socialist was the Wehrmacht's war? -- War as work -- Appendix : the surveillance protocols.
Summary	Though initially recorded by British intelligence with the intention of gaining information that might be useful for the Allied war effort, the matters discussed in these conversations ultimately proved to be limited in that regard. But they would supply a unique and profoundly important window into the mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general, almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war. It is a myth these transcripts unequivocally debunk.
Language	Translation of: Soldaten : Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben. Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Verlag, 2011.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, British.
	Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Attitudes -- Sources.
	Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Attitudes -- Sources.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Anecdotes.
	Eavesdropping -- Great Britain.
	Soldiers -- Germany -- Attitudes -- Sources.
	Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Genre/Form	Quelle
Subject	Deutschland Wehrmacht (DE-588)4064995-7 (DE-101)040649954
Chronological Term	Geschichte
Subject	Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079167-1 (DE-101)04079167X
	Selbstbild (DE-588)4077349-8 (DE-101)040773493
	Kriegsverbrechen (DE-588)4033151-9 (DE-101)040331512
	Wahrnehmung (DE-588)4064317-7 (DE-101)040643174
Added Author	Welzer, Harald.
Added Title	Soldaten. English
ISBN	9780307958129
	0307958124

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