Feldpost: The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 162545015X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is a prolific author of children's books, adult nonfiction, and travel writing. She currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.. An independent historian, Havel has studied German history, language and literature, and the Prussian-German military. About the Author Denis Havel graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in psychology and has taught at both the high school and college level. In the course of her work, she has trekked with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal, and interviewed the Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi. He is currently active in Ge
Neglected in an attic for over fifty years, the documents surfaced only after Hurricane Katrina flooded the family house. Feldpost: The Wartime Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the life and frontline experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941-1945. He wrote his final two letters home from the front in Poland on 12 January 1945 before he disappeared during the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive. Niemann, a well-educated youth from an artist family in Cologne, was sent to the Russian Front four times. After the Second World War, the Niemann family preserved Reiner's letters and photographs, and shipped them to New Orleans when Reiner's sister, Liselotte Andersson, had emigrated. Together, Havel and Stewart uncovered historical details that enabled them to follow Reiner's trail and tell his story.. His is a rare view of battles that annihilated entire German divisions and armies. In his extensive correspondence, Niemann describes the fighting at Rzhev, Russia, 1942-1943, and his survival of the destruction of his division during the Soviet summer offensive in 1944. Andersson's daughter-in-law, author Whitney Stewart, discovered the letters in 2012 and contacted Denis Havel to tr
She currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.. He is currently active in German-American organizations, notably the Germania Männerchor, that preserve German language and traditions.Whitney Stewart grew up in New England and graduated from Brown University. In the course of her work, she has trekked with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal, and interviewed the Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi. Denis Havel graduated from Eastern Illinois University
were normal human beings caught in a terrible, evil struggle Feldpost provides an informative and tragic account of the emptiness, desolation, and loss of war, from "the dark side," the real life perspective of a German soldier's letters home during WW II. Granted, we can wonder why the young soldier didn't desert the Nazi army, but how many of us would risk death, as deserters did? Or we might ask why his letters didn't excoriate The Third Reich, though if he did harbor an animosity for the Nazis, such views would have been censored from his letters, if he hadn't censored them himself,