Boy Soldier : A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0786431113
ISBN-13
9780786431113
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint
McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2007
Print length
188 Pages
Weight
264 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.50 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Autobiography: historical, political & militaryGeneral & world historySecond World War
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In early 1945, the Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and the author, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of WWII. This is his story.
As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 15-year-old boy should ever see. I came into war purely by happenstance, and survived it purely by luck. Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfathers farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing firsthand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamms family was deported from Silesia in 1946 to West Germany. Gerhardt Thamm arrived in the United States in 1948. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the U.S. Army the same year and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. Maybe, just maybe, I fought in this war to escape the barbarity. Maybe I wrote this book to still the memories.
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