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Feldpost : The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann by Denis Havel (2016, Hardcover)

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Feldpost: The Wartime Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the life and front line experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941-1945. Niemann, a well-educated youth from a Westphalia family, was sent to the Russian front four times. He wrote his final two letters home from Poland on January 12, 1945 before he disappeared during the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive. 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. His is a rare view of battles that annihilated entire German divisions and armies. After World War Two, the Niemann family preserved Reiner's letters and photographs and shipped them to New Orleans when Reiner's sister, Liselotte Andersson, had emigrated. Neglected in an attic for over fifty years, the documents surfaced only after Hurricane Katrina flooded the family house. Andersson's daughter-in-law, author Whitney Stewart, discovered the letters in 2012, and contacted Denis Havel to translate them. Together, Havel and Stewart uncovered historical details that enabled them to follow Reiner's trail and tell his story.

Lc Classification Number
D757.32.N54 2016
Reviews
...Excellent translation and editing is accompanied by very useful contextual material, placing the events into a meaningful framework. Since the "Eastern Front" encompassed an extraordinary series of military operations within a vast geography this is very necessary, and very helpful to all readers, even those with some familiarity with this part of the war., "...Excellent translation and editing is accompanied by very useful contextual material, placing the events into a meaningful framework. Since the "Eastern Front" encompassed an extraordinary series of military operations within a vast geography this is very necessary, and very helpful to all readers, even those with some familiarity with this part of the war."
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Afterword by
Stewart, Whitney
Lccn
2016-498131
Dewey Decimal
940.54217092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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