The Evidence That Proves Ordinary German Soldiers Knew Exactly What Was Going on ; SOLDADTA EN: ON FIGHTING, KILLING AND DYING

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The Second World War Tapes of German POWs by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer trans Jefferson Chase (Simon & Schuster, Pounds 25) HOW much did ordinary German soldiers actually know about the atrocities that were committed against civilians behind the front lines in the Second WorldW War, W especially, of course, the Holocaust? After 1945, A Wehrmacht veterans W undertook a successful public relations exercise, differentiating their soldier-to-soldier form of warfare from the SS and Gestapo's war against civilians.

More recently, however, historians have overturned the assumption that they were mere innocents abroad, unaware of what had been going on. Now a new book has …