Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941-43 - ISBN:1935149474

Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941-43

Date: 22 May 2011, 16:53

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The journal is both remarkable in its specificity and appalling in its overarching picture of unrelenting savagery. Although Germany started this war by violating its 1941 peace treaty with the Soviet Union and invading, and has been appropriately condemned in courts both legal and historical, there simply were no good guys in this war.
In one anecdote, the Soviets, to cite just two of the author's accounts, marched their own hospital patients at gunpoint through German minefields to detonate the mines, thus minimizing *military* casualties before attacking the German position. In another, the Germans execute several young Soviet partisans, including teenage girls, whose family members were being held hostage by the Soviets and threatened with death if they did not strike against the Germans -- and if they did not return. The author reports that he and his comrades, combat veterans ("front hogs") though they were, were severely shaken by this event: They were used to killing, and they knew, rationally, that partisans who weren't executed would only live again to detonate an explosive device under their vehicles or slit a sentry's throat. But shooting down teenage girls in cold blood was NOT what they had signed up for.
I don't know how common first-person accounts such as this of fighting on the Eastern Front are, but I can't imagine they're plentiful. For one thing, millions upon millions of participants died, and most of those who survived did so with barely the clothes on their backs. (This author was reported MIA in 1944; a comrade on leave delivered the volumes to relatives.) For another, a soldier on either side who was caught keeping such a journal likely would have been summarily executed.
I hope this book is a useful and valuable resource to both professional historians and lay people interested in the history of the Eastern Front. It is certainly a gripping, and appalling, narrative.

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