What is Reddit's opinion of D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944: Book One?

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I read a book a couple years ago that was interviews of German soldiers that survived D Day. Super interesting and worth a read.

D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VX372UE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_FM9fBb66MB71E

I think this is it. https://www.amazon.com/DAY-Through-German-Eyes-Hidden-ebook/dp/B00VX372UE

It's hard to imagine being overwhelmed like that, just waves of men and material swarming inland and there's nothing you can do to stop it. All after years of being sold on the superiority of your forces.

The 2 volume title D Day Through German Eyes is well worth a read. It features the interviews and recollections of German veterans of D Day on the battle's 10th anniversary in 1954.

https://www.amazon.com/DAY-Through-German-Eyes-Hidden-ebook/dp/B00VX372UE

DM if anyone needs to get a complimentary epub copy

They sure did. I'm reading a book right now called "D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944" Amazon link that features lengthy interviews with German soldiers who manned the gun emplacements at Normandy. It's fascinating to read the German perspective of D-Day. The troops were awed by the amassed allied firepower, with ships stretching out to the horizon and a parade of aircraft flying overhead.

D DAY Through German Eyes parts 1 and 2. Incredible read all the way through. Written by a German journalist whose job during the war time was to write propaganda articles for German newspapers. His work brought him behind the lines of the sea wall in Normandy before the D DAY invasion. Years after the war, he tracked down many of the soldiers he interviewed and collected oral histories of their personal experiences during D Day and their feelings about fighting for Germany. He never published these for fear that they would be misconstrued as Nazi propaganda (NOTE: these are anything but Nazi propaganda, but many of the soldiers share a lot of confused and mixed feelings about what their time in the army actually meant). After he died, his son found the manuscripts and had them published. Very interesting look at the war and the invasion from a point of view that's rarely been written about.

I read a few interesting books, translated from German, from the POV of Germans on D-Day. They most interesting takeaway was the belief that America wouldn't attack Germany and also the disbelief that we wouldn't join them in attacking Russia. Of course, they were being fed propaganda by the government and follow up interviews show that they felt betrayed by their government.

Here is that book

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1. Anyone come across this book? A Fak... - archive.org, <u>archive.today*</u>

2. D-DAY Through German Eyes - archive.org, <u>archive.today*</u>

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