Confessions of Nazi soldiers reveal their thirst for innocent people’s blood
April 6th, 2011 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANILondon, Apr 6 (ANI): A book of transcripts to be published in Germany has revealed Nazi soldiers found it “fun” and “pure enjoyment” massacring innocent civilians and enemy troops.
Historians Soenke Neitzel and Harald Welzer used the interrogations of 13,000 German military prisoners as the basis of ‘Soldiers: Diaries Of Fighting, Killing and Dying - or Soldaten in German’.
The book reveals how the honour of Germany’s old army was lost amid the frenzy to be “perfect, pitiless Nazis”.
The exchanges were covertly recorded by British intelligence at a Trent Park detention centre north of London in an attempt to find out whether they held strategic information useful to the Allies.
The 150,000 sides of transcripts, dating from 1940 to 1945, reveal how the Wehrmacht was little better than the S.S. in its outlook.
The book gives details of how a soldier callously shot a Frenchman from behind just because he wanted his bike, and another who felt “really, really sad” for killing horses of the Polish army.
“The people didn’t bother me, but I will feel sorry for those poor horses until the end of my days,” the Daily Mail quoted the book as reporting the soldier as saying.
In another excerpt, a Luftwaffe airman, identified as Pilot B, related the “enormous fun” he had in shooting fleeing civilian columns on the packed roads of France and Belgium in 1940.
‘Soldaten’ will be printed in English in the autumn. (ANI)
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