Operation Barbarossa: The Lost Diaries
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The diaries of a young German soldier during the Second World War. What do you think his experience can teach us about what it was like for them? What they can also teach us is that this is clearly a man, if you had met him then, during the war, possibly even after the war, would have been a very warm, funny, sympathetic kind of person. The frightening thing is that this man who appears at the first glance, very jovial and very friendly, and like a good mate and a good chap. Is a rabit nazy, a murderer, an anti semite, a racist? That is what the diaries teach us, especially in e full
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