Hans Sturm: A Soldier's Odyssey on the Eastern Front

by Gordon Williamson

Overview

There are many biographies of former soldiers of the Wehrmacht, many of whom had fascinating and exciting stories to tell, and several of whom were highly decorated. However, few can match Hans Sturm in his astonishing rise from a mere private in an infantry regiment, thrown into the bloody maelstrom of the Eastern Front, to a highly decorated war hero. A young man who had displayed fearless heroism in combat, earning him some of Germany's highest military awards, Sturm hated bullies and injustice, and reacted in his normal pugnacious and outspoken manner when confronted with wrongdoing. From striking a member of the feared Sicherheitsdienst for his treatment of a Jewish woman, to refusing to wear a decoration he felt was tainted because of the treatment of enemy partisans, Sturm repeatedly stuck to his moral values no matter what the risk. Even with the war finally over, Sturm's travails would not end for another eight years as he languished in a number of Soviet labour camps until he was finally released in 1953.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157542610
Publisher:	Fonthill Media LLC
Publication date:	05/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Gordon Williamson is the author of more than fifty works dealing with various aspects of military history. A former member of the Royal Military Police (TA), he has a special interest in military police forces of that conflict and has spent several decades studying and collecting photographs and ephemera relating to the German Feldgendarmerie and other police type formations of the Wehrmacht. Kettenhund! The German Military Police in the Second World War was his first book for Fonthill Media.