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These are the compelling letters of Karl
Fuchs, an ordinary German soldier who was completely convinced of
the righteousness of his cause and who wrote them free of the
recriminations and hindsight arising from the bitterness of defeat.
Combining enthusiastic expressions of loyalty to the führer and the
Fatherland with messages of love for his family and requests for
necessities from home, they provide a personal look at a youth
typical of his time, one whose fervent and naive nationalism was of
the very sort that later fanned the flames of the Holocaust.
Throughout YOUR LOYAL AND LOVING SON, young Fuchs remains an
idealist, confident in his concept of duty. Yet his letters clearly
support the general assertion that many Germans who backed the
Third Reich did so neither out of opportunistic self-interest nor
nihilistic delight in destruction, but instead in the hope for a
better future. Killed on the Eastern Front, Fuchs did not live to
see his son, the infant to whom he wrote and who as an adult
compiled these letters for publication. With an introduction and
annotations by eminent historian Dennis Showalter, this collection
will help make those early war years more comprehensible to
contemporary readers. |
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