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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Konrad H. Jarausch, āReluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldierās Letters from the Eastern Frontā (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Description: Konrad H. Jarausch, whose varied and important works on German history have been required reading for scholars for several decades, has published Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldierās Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press, 2011), a collection of his fatherās missives from Poland and Russia during the early years of the Second World War, now translated into English. As you can imagine, this was an intensely personal project, and one that says almost as much about the postwar generation of āfatherless childrenā like Jarausch as it reveals about men like his father (also named Konrad) who found themselv...