THE BLACK MARCH: The Personal Story of an

by Peter Neumann ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

From his tenderfoot days with the Hitler Youth to his heroic hours of annihilation by the Russians, Peter Neumann was a model of loyalty and obedience. When his father was sent to a concentration camp on trumped up political charges (but actually because the old man opposed his daughter's marriage to a flendish SS of ficer), young Peter stood silently by. Nor did the experience obscure the wisdoms of Nazism unfolded during his own intensive education for the SS. A pure Aryan, Peter was selected to do a six day stint at a breeding establishment and here, never questioning the order or eugenic theory, dutifully, he served. Only in a brief, chance, passionate affair with a young Jewish girl, did Peter ever veer from the straight and narrow Party line. And this unaccountable, regrettable lapse he fully redeemed in combat with the famous fighting division -- the pride of Hitler's army. The best pages of the autobiography -- and the more convincing ones - describe the war on the Eastern front; the personal passages have a desultory interest in comparison with the violence of the battle action.

Pub Date: N/A

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow Sloane

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION