In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2

In his graphic account of the fighting, Fritz recalls events such as recovering the body of a fallen colleague from No Man’s Land, the terrifying experience of facing a Red Army infantry attack, Soviet tank assaults, comrades in a neighboring crater being hit by a shell and the moment when he was terribly wounded in the leg.

On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa – Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knockout blow that the Germans had anticipated...