forthcoming memoir

[Terry OToole]

"German General On The Eastern Front"! The memoirs of General Heinrici are are to be published , available in October

[ErichK]

That's welcome news! Just finishing Hamilton's "Bloody Streets" and was thinking it'd be nice to read Heinrici's memoirs. Who is publishing it and do you have a link for us? Thanks.

[ErichK]

Never mind, found it on Amazon!

[Terry OToole]

sorry Erich , translator is Johannes Hurter , I found it in the pen and sword catalogue

[Josh Cowell]

Thanks Terry. I love the communal spirit of the guys on this forum.
I've pre ordered through Amazon.com

[pasoleati]

A review of the original German edition has commented that if you do not want to experience ruptuted blood vessels in your brain you should avoid reading the additions by that editor Johannes Hürter. The reviewer, a retited Finnish Army Colonel, wrote that Hürter is one of those "modern" German historians whose goal is to smash everything that appears nationalist German, such as pride in one's army. So, the Heinrici is text is most interesting, Hürter's is just the opposite.

[Josh Cowell]

A review of the original German edition has commented that if you do not want to experience ruptuted blood vessels in your brain you should avoid reading the additions by that editor Johannes Hürter. The reviewer, a retited Finnish Army Colonel, wrote that Hürter is one of those "modern" German historians whose goal is to smash everything that appears nationalist German, such as pride in one's army. So, the Heinrici is text is most interesting, Hürter's is just the opposite.

Thanks but how to avoid reading Hurter's additions? I really hate losers like him. I should find him on Facebook and heap abuse on his head.

[pasoleati]

Don't know. I will check the review for further information.

[pasoleati]

Found it! Here are some extracts from the review written by Col. Ahto:

"Many kinds of stuff I have read but rarely had text had such an impact as this book's text. It is written between spring 1941 and spring 1942 by the later Generaloberts Gotthard Heinrici."

"The text is assembled from general's frequent letters to his wife and extensive extracts from his private war diary."

"As a man of East Prussian Protestant calling, he was a man of duty for the last, a man whose thinking was very much alike that of Marshal Mannerheim."

Then the reviewer quotes Heinrici's letter regarding partisan warfare etc. later on:"The book is an important document in two ways. Heimnrici's material is without a doubt first class documentation on WW2.

...But a document is the extensive prologue written by the previously mentioned Johannes Hürter as well. It is a document on the modern German politically correct and "scientific" attitude towards the country's own war veterans.

This "scientific" approach includes superficially neutral writing style filled with historiographical jargon and a commendable number of reference notes.

The author's mental superiority is displayed by e.g. using quotation marks. So, according to Hürter, German Army did not teach art of war, but "art of war". Heinrici was not privided upbringing in the military school, it was "upbringing". And so on. The supposedly neutral text should reveal to modern readers how really bad thing used to be.

Just like he [the reader] should realize how suspect were the factors that shaped prototype Wehrmacht generals like Heinrici. They weren't necessarily Nazis, but certainly men of discipline and order.

They considered themselves apolitical, but on the other hand supported all things they considered traditionally patriotic.

Suspect was their openly negative attitude towards extreme left. They were usually conservatives and often monarchists, their home waqs usually middle-class, and for even worse, often religious as well.
...

This is what Hürter tries to prove again and again like a fashionable sosiologist. For the sufferings of the previous generation he does not pay any attentuion, unless it is the Russians doing the suffering. War crimes were everdy day occurrence to him, but naturally on the German side only.

Germany is probably the only country in the world where defaming the countryä's own veterans is part and parcel of life and a merit for one's career. I cannot say much more than that even as an outsider I feel ashamed."

[Josh Cowell]

Found it! Here are some extracts from the review written by Col. Ahto:

The author's mental superiority is displayed by e.g. using quotation marks. So, according to Hürter, German Army did not teach art of war, but "art of war". Heinrici was not privided upbringing in the military school, it was "upbringing". And so on. The supposedly neutral text should reveal to modern readers how really bad thing used to be.

This is what Hürter tries to prove again and again like a fashionable sosiologist. For the sufferings of the previous generation he does not pay any attentuion, unless it is the Russians doing the suffering. War crimes were everdy day occurrence to him, but naturally on the German side only.

Germany is probably the only country in the world where defaming the countryä's own veterans is part and parcel of life and a merit for one's career. I cannot say much more than that even as an outsider I feel ashamed."

Thanks for sharing this.
It aggravates me so much. Germany today calls itself a democracy...
It makes me so mad that Germany's soldiers and heroes are insulted and shunned in such an insufferable manner. When I watched Unser Mutter, Unser Vater I was really dismayed by the portrayal of Germans as humans who turned evil, because "War brings out the worst in everyone" as it was said by the younger brother in that movie, but this same war apparently did not bring out the worst among the partisans and Russians?! We know how brutal and savage they were, yet they appeared like neutral minded human beings in that movie. The world we live in is built on foundations that are based on the manipulation of historical facts and people base their sense of morality and reality on these lies. And people like Hürter cynically manipulate the truth to fit their own agenda, so the generations that believe the likes of him, sit on their moral high horse whose feet are made of clay and look down on good men like Heinrici and our forefathers. They have hijacked morality to fit their own self serving agendas and delude themselves of their own superior decency. No wonder the world is in the state it is. I fear for the future of our children and their children. It reminds me of the movie Matrix with the blue and red pill....

[Josh Cowell]

Double post. Please delete.

[Klaus Richter]

...red pill for me please!