Guy Sajer

France / Germany · Eastern Front — German soldier's memoir

About

Born in Alsace to a French father and a German mother, he served in the Wehrmacht's Grossdeutschland Division. The Forgotten Soldier is his memoir; its details have been disputed by some historians.

Books in Database (1)

The Forgotten Soldier 1965 · 465 pages

A young Alsatian conscript's memoir of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945.

Memoir

Events Covered

1941 Operation Barbarossa 1942 Battle of Stalingrad 1945 Fall of Berlin