Saga of a Volksdeutscher: German Pole Goes to War
(Just a heads-up, this article takes on a bit of an anti-German lean but I believe this soldier's story is still worth the read.)
Erwin Engler, an ordinary German soldier, fought the Soviets and the Americans, only to end up in a British POW camp.
This article appears in: Winter 2013
By Allyn Vannoy
As Russian and German tanks exchanged fire, German Corpora…
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