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In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2
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A Nazi infantryman recalls the horrors of combat against the Soviet Union in this WWII memoir as told to his son.

Friedrich “Fritz” Sauer was posted to the Eastern Front in 1942. A soldier in the 132nd Infantry Division, he was deployed in Hitler’s grand invasion of Russia. But instead of the swift knockout blow the Germans had anticipated, Operation Barbarossa ground on for almost four years.

Sent first to the Crimea and then the region around Leningrad, Fritz experienced horrors of all kinds. In this memoir, Fritz recalls losing his best friend to a sniper, rescuing the body of a fallen comrade from No Man’s Land, enduring Soviet tank assaults, and his own wounding during a counterattack.

Fritz was later transferred to a tank assault regiment where, on a mission to contact another unit, he lost his way in the snow. After sheltering with a farmer’s family, Fritz headed west to flee the advancing Red Army. His subsequent journey home took many twists and turns.
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Release dateSep 30, 2020
ISBN9781526733344
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2

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