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Title: SS Panzergrenadier: A True Story Of World War II by Hans Schmidt ISBN: 0-9669047-4-5 Publisher: Hans Schmidt Publications Pub. Date: 31 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book !
Comment: I consider myself pretty well read in WW2 History and was always taught in school about the Allies great crusade against the evil Third Reich. SS Panzergrenadier ranks high on my "Must Read" first hand account of that horrible but very interesting war.
People must not forget that we were "Allied" with the most brutal dictatorship the world has ever known, Communist Russia. The same Communist Russsia that we kept propt up for nearly 50 years after the war and spent billions of dollars defending against. Mr. Schmidt writes candidly with conviction and I believe honesty. His views may not be popular but they can be historically documented. Would Mr. Eisenhower have been hung at Nuremburg as a War Criminal for his treatment (Well Documented, but rarely published) of POW's? Mr. Schmidts comments on the sorry state of affairs in today's "Democratic" Germany should be alarming to every American who cherishes the First Amendment. A person can't question anything regarding the "Holocaust" and must assume that everything the Allies have written or stated about the Third Reich is absolutely true. If not..Go to Jail. He has first hand knowledge of this fact. This in itself should make people want to read the "Other" side of the story.
Many books have recently been written that confirm Allied attrocities against German Soldiers, armed and un-armed, especially elite Waffen-SS Soldiers. And yes, sadly, some of these Allied soldiers were Americans. So Mr. Schmidts story should not be discounted. Also numerous stories have been told by Ex-German Soldiers of how they surrendered willing, sometimes at great peril, to American or British forces just like Mr. Schmidt. They knew first hand of the attrocities committed by the Red Savages unleashed on Europe.
Mr. Schmidts book should be read by anyone with an open mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: A young German volunteer goes to war for his Country....
Comment: When I came to the United States as a 21 year old German, I was struck by the enthusiasm with which Americans flocked to war movies. From Germans, any exhibitions of patriotism and love of war were, after 1945, driven out by the victorious Allies. In the United States, nationalism flourished and movies glorified war, in which the Americans were invariably the noble and heroic victors defeating the evil enemies (i.e. the Germans or "Nazis" as they are usually called). This stereotype is likewise found in countless newspaper and magazine articles to this very day and in most history books. It is therefore refreshing and gratifying to read a book with a point of view that differs from the cliche.
"SS Panzergrenadier: A true story of World War II" by Hans Schmidt is an autobiographical recollection of the war experiences of one young man, who fought on the "other" side. Schmidt was barely twelve years old when the war started. At 16 he volunteered to join an elite branch of the German armed forces, the 'Waffen SS'. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge during the cruelly cold winter of 1944-45, and later on the Eastern front, which by then had moved frightfully close to the homeland. He suffered frost bites, was wounded twice, and in the end survived with some luck Esenhower's atrocious POW-camps at the notorious Rheinwiesen and elsewhere, where, after the war, hundreds of thousands of German soldiers perished miserably from hunger, thirst and exposure. Eisenhower had reclassified German prisoners of war as DEF (Detained Enemy Forces), using this ruse to circumvent Red Cross inspections of the camps, a clear violation of the Geneva Convention (see James Bacques "Other Losses").
If anything, the book makes clear that war is horrific; there is nothing glorious about it for those who have to fight in the trenches. Schmidt tells his story honestly and in plain language. There are tales of death and suffering, of heroism and cowardice, succeses and failures, back and forth, as the battles raged toward the ultimate defeat of Germany. He assures us, that German soldiers did not act or behave in the distorted, cruel or fumbling manner in which they are so often portrayed in American films. On the contrary, they fought with honor, dignity and courage against overwhelming odds for their survival and that of their families and their fatherland. There is no animosity, bitterness or hatred in Schmidt's writing. Indeed, he recognizes gallantry in American GIs, wherever he saw it. He is still in touch with at least one former GI, against whose country he fought nearly 60 years ago.
The book is fascinating to read and, once started, hard to put down. Not in the mainstream of today's political correctness, it is sadly not carried by the big-name bookstore chains. Fortunately freedom of expression and the press are constitutionally guaranteed in the United States, which regrettably is not the case in Schmidt's original home country, where offenders of stringent censorship laws, enacted or intensified during the 80s and 90s, are prosecuted. The author's experiences in this regard are vividly chronicled in one of his previous books "Jailed in 'Democratic' Germany".
The book represents a major contribution to a more balanced view of historic events and a better understanding of a soldier's love and loyalty for his country and his duty to defend it honorably. It is a 'must-read', and I strongly recommend it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Platfrom for revisionism
Comment: This will be a very short review.
Initially, I was not happy that the book was shipped with a list of the distributors other titles that they have for sale. It's a revisiontist distributor with lots of racial, right wing and Nazi apologist titles.
The book started off promisingly enough, detailing the authors early years.
However, it soon spiralled into a dull cycle of the authors experiences, mixed in with cloaked excuses for National Socialism, Germanys justification for going to war etc.. etc..
I could not finish the book I found it that bad. One would hit an area of historic importance, then Schmidt would launch into a two or three page rant of how the Poles forced Hitler to go to war, with lots of italics, and quotes to highlight Germanys perceived injustices. This tone prevails tirelessly through the book.
His rationalisation of Hitlers attitude to the Jews was hilarious, and obviously tragic, that is, the Jews brought all their troubles on themselves, were a danger to the state, hence, Hitler was obliged to "exile" them. The constant Nazi apologism was too much and it got to the point of being whiningly pathetic.
If you are interested in right wing politics, Holocaust denial, and other elements of Third Reich revisionist history, you will will love this book.
If you are like me, don't buy it as there are plenty other titles out there, that are a hundred times better and are actually historically relevant( and probably cheaper ), especially by Johann Voss, Van Der Heydte, Otto Weidinger, Hans Von Luck, to name but a few.
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