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Hitler's occupation was an ordeal with many levels of suffering. In the broadest sense, the German dictator subjugated the city and the nation it represents to demonstrate the superiority of German culture. The French had many pretty paintings to amuse vacationing Wehrmacht officers, but in the end, Paris would have become little more than a war trophy, gutted of its treasures and transformed into a provincial Nazi capital. Denied his wishes by Allied strength, Hitler wanted the city destroyed before his troops retreated...
...miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World War II. "The tip-off is that the barbed-wire-fence topping points in, not out," says an officer stationed there...
...Germany who arrived in Brooklyn in 1938, Mayer was an Army corporal in training in Arizona when one of Donovan's recruiters persuaded him to volunteer for something "more exciting." It was. In 1944 he parachuted into Nazi-held Austria, stole a German uniform and posed as a Wehrmacht officer while he monitored enemy troop movements. Laughs Mayer: "I was even promoted." Later, after getting a job in a Messerschmitt factory to spy on the development of German jet fighters, he was caught and tortured by the Gestapo. He managed to escape in a German staff...
Schmidt originally planned to be an architect. Instead, in 1937 at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served with an antiaircraft unit that fought on both the Eastern and Western fronts. After being commissioned a first lieutenant, he was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war for six months in Belgium. Earlier, he had joined the Hitler Youth, as did every other boy in his school. His submissive stance is said to have privately troubled Schmidt in later years. Returning after the war to the devastation of Hamburg...
...almost hilarious but this book has limited appeal--you might read it because you read North Dallas Forty, in which case you won't like it as well as you like the previous book. Or you might read it because you read the sports pages and rooted for the Wehrmacht in the latest Super Bowl, in which case you won't like it all. Or you might read it because it is one of the few recent novels that deal with a peculiar and troubling section of America, and then if you don't still believe Oswald was the Lone...