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Radio Operator on the Eastern Front

An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949

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Radio Operator on the Eastern Front

By: Erhard Steiniger, Anthony Tucker-Jones - foreword
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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This is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II.

Erhard Steiniger joined his Wehrmacht unit on October 12, 1940, as a radio operator, a role which required his constant presence with troops at the Front, right in the midst of combat. On June 22, 1941, he accompanied his division to Lithuania where he experienced the catastrophic first day of Operation Barbarossa.

He later witnessed intense clashes during the conquest of the Baltic islands and the battles leading up to Leningrad on the Volkhov and Lake Ladoga. He describes the retreat from battles in Estonia, Kurland, and East Prussia and his eventual surrender and captivity in Siberia. He finally returned to Germany in October 1949, a broken man.

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©2019 Verlagshaus Würzburg GmbH & Co, KG, Würzburg Fleschig Verlag; Forward copyright 2020 by Anthony Tucker-Jones; Translation copyright 2020 by Geoffrey Brooks (P)2021 Tantor Military Military & War World War II Memoir War
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I really liked this honest and truthful approach and writing. This veteran said it as he remembered it which gave a good insight into what he experienced. A Good story overall.

Radio Operator on the Eastern Front

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Being a big fan of Guy Sajer’s The Forgotten Soldier I was looking forward to this and it didn’t disappoint. Not as good as Sajer but an interesting insight into a widely under appreciated experience lived by the Germans. Well worth a listen

Easy and informative listen.

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Good narration makes this a good book and the story is very believable and interesting

Interesting

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An interest account of the war on the Eastern Front, but ultimately lacking in any real detail or emotion. He appears to have witnessed no atrocities, war crimes, or any wrong doings by the German forces.

He's also spectacularly insensitive at times. The Russians used Auschwitz as a transit camp for German prisoners after the war. Of the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) sign over the gates he says "How true it was. I did 4 years of hard labour in Russia before I returned home". No mention of the millions who were murdered after walking under those signs in the many Nazi death camps.

Interesting but sanitised

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I really got into the story and life of this incredible man.
And from a opponent standpoint it just shows that everyone really just wanted to survive, and the common ranks were just used as cannon fodder and not cared about by the generals or state leaders

Amazing story

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