Blood and Soil: The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger 1784383414, 9781784383411
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Table of contents :
Introduction by Lawrence Paterson
Translator’s Preface
Foreword
1 Sterzing, 1938
2 The Big Disappointment
3Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles
Berlin
4 The Beginning Was so Innocuous
The Pfeifermühle, Allgäu
5Zur Besonderen Verwendung
Bad Vöslau
6 The Balkan Campaign
Via Romania to Greece
7 The Vale of Tempe, Early Spring 1941
Salonica to Evangelimos
8 Athens, Spring 1941
9 The Invasion of Russia, Summer 1941
East Prussia
Josvainiai, Lithuania
Kedainiai, Lithuania
Dünaburg, Latvia
10 Bad Vöslau and Oberjoch im Allgäu, Early 1942
11 Russia, Summer 1942
Rostov to Bataisk
The Kuban Steppe: Kerch to Sussatski
At the Caucasus
12 The End of the War, Early 1943 to Spring 1944
Ohrdruf and Greece to Munich
13 The Return
Afterword
Translator’s Notes
