Boy Soldier

A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War II, Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Gerhardt B. Thamm ISBN: 9781476602325
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: September 2, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Gerhardt B. Thamm
ISBN: 9781476602325
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: September 2, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

“As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 15-year-old boy should ever see. I came into war purely by happenstance, and survived it purely by luck.” Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather’s farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing firsthand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm’s family was deported from Silesia in 1946 to West Germany. Gerhardt Thamm arrived in the United States in 1948. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the U.S. Army the same year and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. “Maybe, just maybe, I fought in this war to escape the barbarity. Maybe I wrote this book to still the memories.”

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“As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 15-year-old boy should ever see. I came into war purely by happenstance, and survived it purely by luck.” Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather’s farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing firsthand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm’s family was deported from Silesia in 1946 to West Germany. Gerhardt Thamm arrived in the United States in 1948. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the U.S. Army the same year and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. “Maybe, just maybe, I fought in this war to escape the barbarity. Maybe I wrote this book to still the memories.”

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