personal narratives, german

Memoir of German World War I soldier Ernst J?nger, speaking of his experiences in the trenches and offering his perspective on the Great War, his fascination with the concept of "total war," and how he survived.

A personal diary written during World War I by the German war ace, also known as "The Red Baron.".

Presents the wartime diary of Willy Peter Reese, a young German soldier were served and died on the Russian Front during World War Two, and chronicles the destruction and atrocities he witnessed and committed, as well as his disillusionment toward the war and treatment of the Jews.

Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II. She and her little brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. The teenage Margarete was preoccupied with school, friends, boys, and sports but she was also aware of a growing air of secrecy and fear among her elders and she struggled to make sense of it all. She lost her brother to the army, treated wounded boy soldiers for the German Red Cross, and ran scared through the streets as Allied bombs decimated her city. Just when she thought the worse was over and she and her mother were on a train to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia. Margarete survived the war but the wartime tragedies she experienced would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Describes the reunion of Helga Schneider and her mother, who left Helga, her siblings, and their father and became a Nazi SS "Corrections" officer at Auschwitz and Birkenau.