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With his work, the author presents - without pathos, transfiguration or self-pity - the impressive testimony of a grenadier of the Second World War. In the first part of his book, Erhard Steiniger, born and raised in Northwest Bohemia in 1920, describes his childhood and youth in Langugest, his home village in the Sudetenland, up to the time he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. With his draft notice in his pocket, he went to Beraun on 12 October 1940 to Infantry Intelligence Replacement Company 21, where he completed his six-week basic training and was trained as a radio operator.
After field-marching uniform, his further journey took him to Quimper in Brittany to Infantry Regiment 151 of the 61st East Prussian Infantry Division, to which he would belong until January 1945. Transferred to East Prussia near Labiau in February 1941, the Russian campaign begins for Erhard Steiniger with the "Barbarossa" operation. As a radio operator in the thick of the fighting, he experienced the offensive battles in the Baltic States, the conquest of the Baltic islands, the battles off Leningrad, on the Volchov and south of Lake Ladoga. He gives a dramatic and memorable account of the retreat battles in Estonia, Courland and East Prussia. He experienced the surrender southeast of Prague, followed by imprisonment in Siberia, from which he did not return to destroyed Germany until October 1949. In his work, Erhard Steiniger succeeds in portraying the horrors of war and captivity truthfully and from the perspective of the little man. The result is a grippingly written eyewitness account from the first to the last page that allows the reader to share in the fate of an entire generation.
After field-marching uniform, his further journey took him to Quimper in Brittany to Infantry Regiment 151 of the 61st East Prussian Infantry Division, to which he would belong until January 1945. Transferred to East Prussia near Labiau in February 1941, the Russian campaign begins for Erhard Steiniger with the "Barbarossa" operation. As a radio operator in the thick of the fighting, he experienced the offensive battles in the Baltic States, the conquest of the Baltic islands, the battles off Leningrad, on the Volchov and south of Lake Ladoga. He gives a dramatic and memorable account of the retreat battles in Estonia, Courland and East Prussia. He experienced the surrender southeast of Prague, followed by imprisonment in Siberia, from which he did not return to destroyed Germany until October 1949. In his work, Erhard Steiniger succeeds in portraying the horrors of war and captivity truthfully and from the perspective of the little man. The result is a grippingly written eyewitness account from the first to the last page that allows the reader to share in the fate of an entire generation.
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- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Steiniger, Erhard
- Title
- Als Funker an den Brennpunkten der Front. Mit dem Infanterieregiment 151 der 61. Infanteriedivision in Russland, im Baltikum und Ostpreußen
- Details
- 129 b/w illustrations 341 pages.
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