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Your loyal and loving son : the letters of tank gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-41 / edited and translated by Horst Fuchs Richardson ; historical commentary by Dennis E. Showalter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuchs, Karl, 1917-1941.
- Standardized Title:
- Sieg Heil!
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Fuchs, Karl, 1917-1941--Correspondence.
- Fuchs, Karl.
- Fuchs, Karl, 1917-1941.
- Soldiers--Germany--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Tank warfare.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Tank warfare.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Soldiers--Germany--Correspondence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives -- German.
- Correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 163 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- These are the compelling letters of Karl Fuchs, an ordinary German soldier completely convinced of the righteousness of his cause, who wrote them free of the recriminations and hindsight so common in accounts written after 1945. They provide a personal look at a youth typical of his time, one whose fervent and naive nationalism was of the very sort that later fanned the flames of the Holocaust. His letters clearly support the assertion that many Germans who initially backed the Third Reich did so neither out of opportunistic self-interest nor nihilistic delight in destruction, but instead in the hope for a better future. Killed in action on the Eastern Front, Fuchs did not live to see his son, the infant to whom he wrote and who as an adult compiled these letters for publication. With an introduction and annotations by eminent historian Dennis Showalter, this collection will help make those early war years more comprehensible to contemporary readers.
- Contents:
- 3 The Soldier's Assignments 5
- 4 Historical Comments / Dennis E. Showalter 7
- 5 The Letters
- Footnotes / Dennis E. Showalter 23.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Sieg Heil! Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162).
- ISBN:
- 1574885677
- OCLC:
- 50124966
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