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Reunion with Soviet Russia : Diary of the Campaign in the East / Edwin Erich Dwinger ; Weerzien met Sowjet-Rusland . Very good condition with dustcover. 1943Dutch book Weerzien met Sowjet-Rusland a famous writer, Edwin Erich Dwinger. The author is a German writer, Edwin Erich Dwinger. He was a staunch opponent of Bolshevism and believed that it was necessary to make every effort to avoid the growing influence of Communist ideology on the German people. Anti-communism attracted him to the Nazis, who called him an expert on "Soviet mass murder". In 1935 he joined the SS and received the rank of obersturmfuhrer cavalry regiment. During the Second world war, was a war correspondent in the armored division, who fought on the Soviet-German front, and then was transferred to the personal staff of the Reichsfuhrer-SS, where he participated in the development of SS operations in occupied territories. He describes his front-line impressions on the Eastern front in this book published in Leipzig in 1943. – From the Preface :" these diaries are only excerpts from the great military company, the full author intends to publish them after the war." The book contains sections: I. 22. June’s II to the Berezina III. across the Dnieper. 237 PP., 1943. November 9, 1936, on the initiative of Heinrich Himmler, Dwinger is assigned a rank of SS-untersturmführer (personal number in the "Black order" – 277 082). On February 9, 1938 he will be promoted to obersturmfuhrer. As of may 1, 1937 Dinger was a member of the NSDAP No. 5 293 309. The second world war found Dwinger sonderfuhrer in the rank of waffen SS. The novel "Death in Poland" about "the massacre in Bromberg" (the mass murder of the Polish military forsdyke on September 3, 1939) received the highest rating from Goebbels. **** Important**** Shipping from our office in Europe.
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