title: D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
author:  Holger Eckhertz 
description: &apos;D Day Through German Eyes&apos; presents the transcripts of interviews which my grandfather carried out with German veterans in 1954, on the tenth anniversary of D Day. These were German soldiers, engineers and Luftwaffe men who had experienced the opening hours of the Normandy beach landings, and they were able to recall those cataclysmic events in detail. <br /><br />My grandfather had been a German propaganda journalist in 1944, and had visited the Atlantic Wall under construction. He was also a veteran of the German Army in World War One, and so his background enabled him to build a strong rapport with the interviewees, many of whom had not spoken of their experiences even with their own families. <br /><br />The result is a series of interviews which reveal not only the desperate reactions of German soldiers to the Allied onslaught, but also the surprising mix of motivations which drove them.
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  D DAY
  
  
  Through German Eyes
  
  
  Eyewitness Accounts by German Soldiers
  
  
  Of June 6th
  
  
  1944
  
  
  Original Material Edited by
  
  
  Holger Eckhertz
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Holger Eckhertz 2015
  
  
  All rights reserved in all languages
  
  
  Reserved rights include (but are not limited to) translation, excerpt,
  serialisation, adaption and film. No part of this book may be duplicated,
  copied, stored or resold by any means without permission.
  
  
  The publisher wishes to highlight that a number of the following interviews
  express controversial opinions which originate in the German experience of the
  Second World War. These opinions are not shared by the current publisher, and
  the publisher does not condone or promote such views. They are presented in
  the interests of historical understanding only.
  
  
  Formatted and Published by DTZ History Publications
  
  
  Translated by Sprech Media
  
  
  Audio versions of Books One & Two are available from Audible.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  
  
  