
Adventures in My Youth
by Armin Scheiderbauer
"A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45"
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Adventures in My Youth Book Details
War:
World War II
Perspective:
Infantry
Military Unit:
Wehrmacht
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
414
Published Date:
2013
ISBN13:
9781907677496
Adventures in My Youth Book Description
The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front. Originally written only for his daughter, Armin Schedierbauer’s Adventures in My Youth chronicles his time as a solider during World War II. As an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German Army, Schedierbauer saw four years of combat on the Eastern Front. After joining his unit during the winter of 1942, he was wounded six times and had firsthand experience of the Soviet offensives in the summer of 1944 and January 1945. While fighting in East Prussia, he was captured by the Soviets and not released until 1947. Schedierbauer was only twenty-one years old when the war ended, and his memoir recollects the experiences he went through as a young man on the front.