Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the firs

Gunter Horst Beetz was born in Berlin in 1926. Growing up as part of a typical family-his father was a banker, his mother a housewife-he joined the Hitler Youth

The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but with the exception of Dachau the history of these early, improvised ca

“My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this r

The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two Wor