Title Reluctant accomplice : a Wehrmacht soldier's letters from the Eastern Front / edited by Konrad H. Jarausch ; with contributions by Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy ; foreword by Richard Kohn

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents In search of a father : dealing with the legacy of Nazi complicity -- The Polish campaign -- Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 -- Training recruits -- Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 -- War of annihilation in Russia -- Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 Summary Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Jarausch, Konrad, 1900-1942 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Jarausch, Konrad, 1900-1942 -- Correspondence Jarausch, Konrad, 1900-1942 fast Subject Soldiers -- Germany -- Correspondence World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects. Intellectuals -- Germany -- Correspondence HISTORY -- Military -- World War II. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights. Atrocities Ethics Intellectuals Military campaigns Soldiers Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)) Germany Genre/Form Electronic books personal correspondence. letters (correspondence) Personal narratives Personal narratives Personal correspondence Personal correspondence. Personal narratives. Correspondance privée. Récits personnels. Form Electronic book Author Jarausch, Konrad Hugo, editor Arnold, Klaus Jochen, 1968- Duffy, Eve M. LC no. 2010021714 ISBN 9781400836321 1400836328

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