Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-45

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Many military terms have been retained in their original German, and readers are directed to the glossary for English definitions.

The publishers’ wish to extend their thanks to the author, Dr Armin Scheiderbauer, for his patience and support for this book. He has dealt with all our enquiries and requests with the utmost politeness and promptitude. Dr Sarah Williams kindly agreed to write the prologue, and the publishers’ would like to express their gratitude for her accurate work.

To provide some background to the author’s experiences, it was felt that a brief summary of the wartime activities of the 252nd Infantry Division might prove useful to readers.

The division was created on 26 August 1939, as a so-called ‘4th Wave’ division, from replacement units of Wehrkreis VIII. At that time it consisted of:

Inf.Rgts. 452, 461, 472

All divisional-level units numbered 252

1939

Polish campaign – formed part of Kampfgruppe Gienanth, seeing action at Miltitsch, Herrnstadt, Krotoschin-Lissa, Görschen, Kröben, Jarotschin and Wreschen. Security work in the Konin-Klesczew area, and Posen. Transported to the Western front, October 1939.

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