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On a trip to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable finding: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly saved and just lately declassified. Neitzel would later find another assortment of transcriptions, doubly considerable, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important screen in to the true mentality of the military in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the armed forces on the whole - almost all of whom experienced insisted on their own honorable behavior through the war. Collaborating with renowned communal psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations - and the informal, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them - from a historical and psychological point of view, and in reconstructing the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have got created a robust narrative of wartime experience.
