Soldaten
Subtitle: on fighting, killing, and dying : the secret World War II transcripts of German POWs
By: Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase
Contributors: Welzer, Harald
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780771051050
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Military intelligence; British Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Sources; Attitudes; Soldiers; Anecdotes; Eavesdropping; Armed Forces; History; Prisonniers de guerre
Work titles: Soldaten
Description: A compendium of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs, secretly recorded by the Allies and recently declassified, offers insight into the mindset of World War II German soldiers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-412) and index.

Translation of: Soldaten : Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben. Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Verlag, 2011.
Table of contents: title: What the soldiers discussed; title: The soldiers' world; title: Fighting, killing, and dying; title: Frame of reference: annihilation; title: Sex; title: Technology; title: Faith in victory; title: Ideology; title: Success; title: Frame of reference: war; title: How national socialist was the Wehrmacht's war?; title: War as work; title: Appendix: The surveillance protocols.