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Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...

Just beside her, at arm’s length, eight German soldiers in uniform uncoil rolls of barbed wire as part of the perimeter fencing. Absorbed in what she is reading, the woman seems completely ...