Most biographies or war diaries of soldiers in the Second World War are about the fighting troops, preferably from well known Panzer commanders.
This book is different!
It is the nearly day to day diary of a medical officer, starting on Friday 1 September 1939 with the sentence: “The decision has been made: since early this morning the weapons of Germany and Poland are exchanging fire!” and ending with the last entry on Thursday 25 February 1947 with the exclamation “I was Home!”
Between this span of 2,368 days Medical Officer Dr. Wilhelm Mauss gives an account of the war through his eyes. During the Westfeldzug he serves as a divisional doctor with the 20. Infantry Division and during the war in the East he sees action near Smolensk, Schlüsselburg, Tichwin, Lake Ilmen, Wolchow, and Welikije Luki. He leaves the Russian Front in March 1943 and is transferred to the XIV. Panzer Korps in Italy. He surrenders to American troops on 4 May 1945 and goes into captivity where he serves again as a doctor in a hospital in Udine/Italy. He is released nearly two years later to return home.
Dr. Mauss opened a medical practice in 1948 and died in 1954 at the age of
55 years.
Oberstarzt ( Colonel) Dr. Mauss, who already served in the Great War and was awarded with the EK2 received the EK 1. Class and the German Cross in Silver during his service in the Second World War.
His diary, extending over 453 pages and illustrated with documents, photos, personal sketches is an extremely unique contemporary document.
The book can be bought directly from Mook wi Publishing at www.20pzgrendiv.eu or in the USA from Aberdeen Bookstore (www.aberdeenbookstore.com)
This book is different!
It is the nearly day to day diary of a medical officer, starting on Friday 1 September 1939 with the sentence: “The decision has been made: since early this morning the weapons of Germany and Poland are exchanging fire!” and ending with the last entry on Thursday 25 February 1947 with the exclamation “I was Home!”
Between this span of 2,368 days Medical Officer Dr. Wilhelm Mauss gives an account of the war through his eyes. During the Westfeldzug he serves as a divisional doctor with the 20. Infantry Division and during the war in the East he sees action near Smolensk, Schlüsselburg, Tichwin, Lake Ilmen, Wolchow, and Welikije Luki. He leaves the Russian Front in March 1943 and is transferred to the XIV. Panzer Korps in Italy. He surrenders to American troops on 4 May 1945 and goes into captivity where he serves again as a doctor in a hospital in Udine/Italy. He is released nearly two years later to return home.
Dr. Mauss opened a medical practice in 1948 and died in 1954 at the age of
55 years.
Oberstarzt ( Colonel) Dr. Mauss, who already served in the Great War and was awarded with the EK2 received the EK 1. Class and the German Cross in Silver during his service in the Second World War.
His diary, extending over 453 pages and illustrated with documents, photos, personal sketches is an extremely unique contemporary document.
The book can be bought directly from Mook wi Publishing at www.20pzgrendiv.eu or in the USA from Aberdeen Bookstore (www.aberdeenbookstore.com)
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