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In honour of Remembrance Day, also called Veterans’ Day and Armistice Day, here is an excerpt, part of a World War II soldier’s account of the reality of being a prisoner of the nazis.
After the Fall of Berlin: Episode 101 – Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2
When Berlin surrendered, the war in Europe continued for another week—in Czechoslovakia and its capital, Prague.SourcesAntony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945. New York, NY, USA: Penguin Random House, 2002.Antony Beevor, The Second World War. New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Morse code by Thane BrownMusic composed and recorded by Nicolas BuryHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
This excerpt came from Army of Worn Soles: Volume 1 of the Eastern Front Trilogy, the true story of a Canadian drafted into the Soviet Red Army, 1941–1945.
Learn more about Army of Worn Soles.