Description

Following their captured by Allied troops, the German generals were taken to special prisoners of war camps where they were interrogated for a variety of purposes, among others for historical reasons. This book includes a series of reports and interrogations detailing the life in the prisoners of war camp during the war along with the post-war interrogatories of a series of generals who gave their view on the battles fought in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe between 1943 and 1945. The names included in the book are: Wilhelm von Thoma, Ludwig Crüwell, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Günther Blumentritt, Gustav Adolf von Zangen, Heinrich von Vietinghoff Scheel, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Heinrich Eberbach, Karl Gerd von Rundstedt, Edgar Feuchtinger, Friedrich-August Schack, Erwin Sander, Eugen Felix Schwalbe, Erich Diestel, Heinrich von Lüttwitz, Wilhelm Daser, Heinz Fiebig, Otto Sponheimer, Eberhard Wildermuth, Ferdinand Heim, Ludwig Schroeder, Erich Straube, the Luftwaffe generals Hermann Plocher, Eugen Meindl, Wolfgang Pickert, Richard Heidrich, Kurt Student, Alfred Schlemm, and the Waffen-SS generals Theodor Wisch, Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich and Kurt 'Panzermeyer' Meyer