Die Armee der Geächteten
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491_9784871879224
Those of us who are Americans grew up watching World War II movies showing how the Americans always beat the Germans. Amazing that we always win considering the fact that our side nearly lost the war. Since there is a shortage of true stories about the war, we get to watch the purely fictional accounts such as The Dirty Dozen and The Guns of Navarone or the accounts that at least might be somewhat true such as Stalag 17, Darbys Rangers, and so many others I could not begin to list them all. A few even have a factual basis, such as The Longest Day.I have often wondered how the Germans feel watching these Hollywood movies where they always lose.In this book, Felix Steiner provides one of the very few books that tells the German side of the war. The title, The Army of the Outlaws, is based on the fact that he commanded an army made up of Non-German volunteers, consisting mostly of Dutch, Walloons, and Scandinavians including the Danish regiment Frikorps Danmark. In other words, the men he commanded were, from the point of view of history as we now know it, fighting against their own countries.Had the side they were on won the war, they would have been regarded as heroes, but since they lost they would be forgotten were it not for this book.Felix Steiner has great praise for the one million men fighting under him, saying repeatedly that they were superior in every way to the Russians and others they were fighting against.As to the reason they lost, we all know the real reason. They were outnumbered ten to one.This book has not been translated into English although it should be. Since it will probably never be translated, I am reprinting it in German.We Americans never even heard of Felix Steiner, mainly because he never fought against us, until a few months ago when youtube.com suddenly got filled up with videos about Felix Steiner. We find out that in the very concluding days of the war, during the last days of the Battle for Berlin, when German sold
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