Soldaten - New perspectives on combat motivation in the Wehrmacht
Sönke Neitzel, Glasgow’s new Professor of Modern History and Global Security, will talk about Soldaten – the best-selling book co-authored by him.
Based on thousands of wiretapped conversations of German POWs in allied captivity, Soldaten is the first book that neither had to rely on sanitized wartime sources, nor on postwar memories and distortions in its examination of the behaviour of ordinary German soldiers in WWII.
The results of Neitzel and Walzer’s research turn everything we thought we knew about German soldiers in Hitler’s war upside and down.