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Hans Sturm - A Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front (Hardcover)
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Hans Sturm - A Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front (Hardcover)
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There are many biographies of former soldiers of the German
Wehrmacht, many of whom had fascinating stories to tell, and
several of whom were highly decorated. Few, however, can match Hans
Sturm in his astonishing rise from a mere private in an infantry
regiment, thrown into the bloody maelstrom of the Eastern Front, to
becoming a glorified war hero whose role brought him into direct
regular contact with Prominenten of the Third Reich. This young
man's fearless heroism in combat earned him some of Germany's
highest military awards, and yet he was pugnaciously outspoken
about bullying and injustice. From striking a member of the feared
Sicherheitsdienst in defence of a Jewish woman to refusing to wear
a decoration he felt was tainted by its encouragement of inhumane
treatment of enemy partisans, Sturm repeatedly stuck to his moral
values no matter what the risk. But even when the war was finally
over, his travails did not end: he was held in a number of Soviet
labour camps, before finally being released in 1953. Hans Sturm: A
Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front is an engaging
reconstruction of events based on exchanges of correspondence and
reminiscences between the author and Hans Sturm himself. It vividly
portrays not only a German soldier's experience on the Eastern
Front, but the intriguing trajectories that success in the
battlefield yielded for him at home under the Nazi regime.
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