Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen G. Fritz

Author:Stephen G. Fritz [Fritz, Stephen G.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780813127811
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Two Pioneers [combat engineers] ran here and there, placing explosives under the rails, . . . [then] blew the white, thin beams out of the earth. . . . But that was only a part of the destruction, a laughably small part. . . . The villages burned. They burned with raging power. The embers covered the street. We went through in a gallop, our faces covered against the shower of sparks. . . . The smoke mingled with the thick dust to form a compound so thick that we were wrapped in a double coat. Long before evening the sun was already red, as it hung sick and thirsty over the march of destruction. The clouds over the army column, illuminated by a double light, gave the most splendid, beautiful colors that I have ever seen: it unfurled war in its whole terrible splendor. We saw houses in all stages of destruction . . . , the first outbreak of red flames that battled the black smoke clouds, the victorious dance of the red rooster over the roofs. We raced through the white-hot dying streets.35

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