Book description
Originally written while the author was a prisoner of the US Army in 1945Â46, Black Edelweiss is a boon to serious historians and WWII buffs alike. In a day in which most memoirs are written at half a centuryÂs distance, the former will be gratified by the authorÂs precise recallâŠ
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Voss volunteered to join the elite Nazi forces as a teenager in 1943, when (unbeknownst to him) the war was already lost for Germany. His memoir of barely two years in historyâs most notorious military unit will surprise many who are used to seeing SS members in Holocaust movies and memoirs; Voss was an infantryman who fought in Finland and later in the Western front, fully devoted to Nazi ideology until Germany was defeated and he saw the flip side of the coin. A very unique book.
From David's list on The best books on the batshit-crazy history of Nazi Germany.
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