Black Edelweiss - A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen SS
Black Edelweiss - A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen SS
The Aberjona Press | 2002 | ISBN: 0966638980 | English | 215 pages | PDF | 8 MB
As it joins the ranks of the books in this genre, Black Edelweiss makes a unique and very important contribution. It is a true, personal account of the author’s war years, first at school and then with the Waffen-SS, which he joined early in 1943 at the age of seventeen. For a year and a half, the author fought as a machine gunner in SS-Mountain Infantry Regiment 11 "Reinhard Heydrich," mainly in the arctic and sub-arctic reaches of Soviet Karelia and Finland, and later at the Western frontier of the Third Reich. The characters in the story are real, and the conversations and actions are recounted to the best of his ability from the short distance at which he wrote the manuscript in 1945–46.