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Title: Sanitised
Review: The book is the story of a German artillery officer in the second world war. Perhaps the most interesting part is the account of his time in a soviet prison camp after the war ended. The author describes how he was asked questions for some five years and learned not to implicate himself in anything which would be seen by the soviets as a war crime. The book gives the impression that it has been written to convey a certain message. The author thus talks of the war and distances himeself from the various war crimes.This is not really believable as the way that the germans killed the jews and the communists on the Russian front was the sort of thing that would be hard to hide.The book contains little insight into the way that the german or the soviet army worked in practice. This is perhaps due to the author being injured for a good proportion of the war and doing training for a good deal of the rest. There are better books around.
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