Are there any diaries of n**i soldiers?

Question

There's quite a few of survivors of the holocaust, but I was looking for one of a soldier/ party member to try to understand what their thinking at the time was...

Answer 1

There is.  One book in particular that might be of interest is Voices of Stalingrad by Jonathan Bastable.  This book has both Russian and German soldiers diary entries in it and is a good read.

Another book is Stalingrad Memories and Reassessments by Joachim Wieder and Heinrich Graf Von Einsiedel which has a first hand account about the last few months of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Answer 2

Try Panzer Commander by Hanz von Luck - available from Casell Military Paperbacks.  He fought in Poland (1939), France (1940), Russia (1941-2 - and possibly got closer to Moscow than any other German soldier), North Africa (1942-3), Normandy (1944), and on the Eastern Front again in 1945.  He met many significant figures, notably Rommel, who personanlly arranged for his transfer to the Afrika Korps.

He also chronicles the years after the war when he was held prisoner in Russia.

It's a personal memoir, not a political self-justification.  He doesn't mention the camps because he never set foot in one.

He writes with clarity, honesty and foresight.  Recommended.

Answer 3

There are several, I'm sure. There's the autobiography of Rudolf Höss (or Hoess). He was an Auschwitz commandant.

Answer 4

There is a book BY Fritz Von Lugen called I believe "How I killed my mother for the Führer!" But here is why All Germans knew even though they are deny it. i am a Holocaust survivor and went back to Germany occupying Germany as a US soldier. i put a few Germans in the hospital. Ny nature, Germans are cowards and in their genes have a lot of criminal instincts. Lately a German adult killed and ate the flesh of another German. At his sentence, he said he liked eating the man and that he tasted k like pork c  hops.  Germans are  fond of   freaky BDSM clubs. Most Ger mans are potential mass murderers. That is why the German Government has a hard time to restrain the Neo-n***s.Lately they  beat  up Indians  .If ever there is another n**i party i would recommend total obliteration of Germany once and for all.  That also  goes for Iran or any genocidal country such as the Sudan. Nuke them.There we go again/// There are monsters who should be at the least interned in mental hospitals. and given injections to cure their ilnesses if that is at all possible.