looking for a Battle of Berlin book

[sniper1shot]

Are these last couple of titles in English?

[Rene Chavez]

Miguel Ezquerra "Berlin a vida o muerte" is what you're looking for.
Also Saint-Paulain "dead Lions" is a good reading
Spanish and French waffen SS volunteers accounts

Paolo

The Miguel Ezquerra book has lots of questionable related information it is imo more fictional then factual.

Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

[Paolo]

The Miguel Ezquerra book has lots of questionable related information it is imo more fictional then factual.

Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

Probably right but still a good reading.
I guess they are both available in English but not actually sure

[FranzJon]

An update...

Reading le Tissier's "Race for the Reichstag" and it's truly exquisite and I recommend it to all...

I also received "For Europe" and have thumbed through the first several pages and it also looks like a great read but first i want to finish le Tissier.

[SmKL]

I'm not sure if available in English language but maybe you ask your dealer.

Willi Rogmann
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Einzelkaempfer der Leibstandarte
Traeger der Nahkampfspange in Gold
ISBN 978-3-00-0029399-3

A 17year old voluntary of Leibsstandarte joined war in Greece in 1940
and returned back to Berlin by march 1945.

He tells about the fighting at Alexander Platz, Potsdamer Platz, Reichstag
and finally Friedrichstrasse / Weidendammer Bruecke / ... . He managed to
leave Berlin and reached home near Magdeburg. A very impressive book !

Guenter Birnbaum
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"In fufzig Jaarn is allet vorbei"
ISBN 3-931559-84-x

Mr.Birnbaum is telling his own story as a member of Hitler Youth. His home
is near Alexander-Platz. So he took part in the fighting around - Police building,
Hertie department store, the T34 in descent to sub station, Red town hall,
Deutscher Dom, Monbijou park, ...

The book tells the story about fighting and dying explicit ..

[Klaus Richter]

I was always interested in Rogmann's book after reading the quite large section from him in le Tissier's book "With Our Backs to Berlin." It was really good. Unfortunately my German isn't good enough yet to tackle an entire memoir. Hopefully it gets translated, or hopefully by German improves!

[jerry c.]

can anybody elaborate on the SS holdouts in... i believe was a bank building.

i seem to recall a quote from chuikov saying that a memorial should be built honoring their brave defense.

i could have sworn it was in "the bunker"... but for the life of me i can find no mention of it anywhere.... or on the net.

[SmKL]

can anybody elaborate on the SS holdouts in... i believe was a bank building.

i seem to recall a quote from chuikov saying that a memorial should be built honoring their brave defense.

i could have sworn it was in "the bunker"... but for the life of me i can find no mention of it anywhere.... or on the net.

Maybe Reichsbank ? Located at "Werderscher Markt". The building is today
a part oft the German foreign office.
At close range to Reichskanzlei (appr. 700m) direct beside river Spree. I
remember a photo with a scene near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal with a lot of
destroyed Russian tanks- this is over the road.

[jerry c.]

Maybe Reichsbank ? Located at "Werderscher Markt". The building is today
a part oft the German foreign office.
At close range to Reichskanzlei (appr. 700m) direct beside river Spree. I
remember a photo with a scene near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal with a lot of
destroyed Russian tanks- this is over the road.

i'm gonna have to keep looking. if it was adjacent to the chancellery, that would suggest troops from the charlemagne.

[MarcRikmenspoel]

There's also some detail on Rogmann in the book Soldiers of the Leibstandarte, by Thomas Fischer. The information given suggests that he was an outstanding assault troop leader, so he likely has plenty more good anecdotes to relate than just the ones already published about Berlin.

[Klaus Richter]

I own "Soldiers of the Leibstandarte." It's on a big pile of "books to read" on top of my desk. Maybe I'll bump it up my list. Right now I'm reading "Knight's Cross Panzers," and after that I was going to read Tieke's "In the Firestorm of the Last Years of the War." Maybe I'll read "Soldiers..." first!

[Chris Perna]

I was always interested in Rogmann's book after reading the quite large section from him in le Tissier's book "With Our Backs to Berlin." It was really good.

Le Tissier also wrote a follow up of sorts to "With Our Backs to Berlin". I believe that book is called "Death Was Our Companion, Final Days of the Reich". Both are good reads in my opinion.

[Klaus Richter]

I agree. Death was our Companion is also excellent!

[jerry c.]

he seems to have made a career out of the battle for berlin.

race for the reichstag

with our backs to berlin

death was our campanion


it looks like the the race for the reichstag is a history of the battle... and the other 2 are firsthand accounts.

which one would you start with?

[Chris Perna]

it looks like the the race for the reichstag is a history of the battle... and the other 2 are firsthand accounts.

which one would you start with?

I started with Our Backs to Berlin, and then moved on to Death Was Our Companion, which I think Le Tissier intended to be more or less a sequel. It might be more feasible to start with Race for the Reichstag to get an overall feel for those last days, then read the other two for the firsthand accounts of those who fought through them.

Both of these books should be easily available and not to expensive. Some of the books on this subject are hard to find and have a high price tag, so I started with ones that are readily priced and available. Hope that helps.