We will not go to Tuapse : from the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade 'Wallonien' 1942-45 / Fernand Kaisergruber ; translated by Frederick P. Steinhardt PhD ; edited by Kenneth W. Estes PhD.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kaisergruber, Fernand, 1923- author.

Contributor:

• Steinhardt, Frederick P., translator.
• Estes, Kenneth W., 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Kaisergruber, Fernand, 1923-.
• World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

West Midlands, [England] : Helion and Company Limited, 2016.

Summary:

A soldier with the German Army's Wallonian Legion chronicles his experience as a foreign volunteer for the Nazi war machine during WWII. A french-speaking Belgian, Fernand Kaisergruber volunteered to fight with the military force that occupied his country. His detailed chronicle of that time reads like a travelogue of the Eastern Front campaign. Until recently, very little was known of the tens of thousands of foreign nationals who fought with the Germans. Kaisergruber's book sheds light on issues of collaboration, the experiences and motives of volunteers, and the reactions they encountered in occupied countries. Kaisergruber draws upon his wartime diaries, those of his comrades, and his later work with them while secretary of their postwar veteran's league. Although unapologetic for his service, Khemakes no special claims for the German cause. He writes instead from his firsthand experience as a young man entering war for the first time. His narrative is full of observations of fellow soldiers, commanders, Russian civilians, and battlefields.

Contents:

• List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Author's Notes; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments and Sources; Glossary; 1. From Peace to War; 2. Instruction (in Brandenburg); 3. En Route to the East: 16 Days on Straw; 4. Slaviansk: The Front is Not Much Farther; 5. The Advance; 6. The Return of the Prodigal Son; 7. Koubano - Armianski: Caucasus; 8. Toward New Horizons; 9. 21 October, 1942: Evacuated; 10. Conclusion of the Campaign in the Caucasus: Prelude to Another; 11. New Winter Campaign: Tcherkassy; 12. Our Second Campaign: My First Winter; 13. The Fighting at Teklino; 14. The Encirclement
• 15. The Breakthrough: The Word is "Freiheit"!16. The Tour of the Hospitals; 17. Return on a "Mission" to Belgium; 18. Exile; 19. Return to My Unit; 20. Departure for the Oder: The Final Endeavors; 21. Ephemeral Prisoners; 22. Our Return to Belgium; 23. Arrested and a Captive in My Own Land; 24. From Dampremy to St. Gilles; 25. The "Petit Château"; 26. The Tribunal; 27. Beverloo; 28. The Merksplas Colony; 29. Shadow, Freedom, Rebirth; Epilogue; Appendices; I Additional Illustrations; II "Impressions of Beverloo"

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781911096979
• 1911096974