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Wounded five times and awarded numerous decor for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann found action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious fights in the forests south of Leningrad, and concluded the warfare in the Courland Pocket. In his memoir, he stocks his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants attempting to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscaping. He recalls a Christmas present of gingerbread from your home that overcame the stench of struggle, an Easter celebrated with a container of Russian side grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine firearm flames at close range. In closing, he relives the humiliation of surrender to a opponent whom the Germans acquired once derided and will be offering a sobering view into life in the Soviet gulags. Bidermann's bank account debunks the misconception of an extremely mechanized German army that rolled over weaker competitors with impunity. Despite the great expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the warfare with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving. His history commits that living hell to the annals of World Battle II and broadens our knowledge of its most lethal combat zone.
