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Schoenhals (Kenyon College) provides a thorough treatment of the National Committee "Free Germany" (NKFD), an organization of German prisoners of war and Communist exiles who, beginning in 1943, established an anti-Nazi movement in the Soviet Union. The NFKD never successfully promulgated anti-Hitler propaganda in Germany, but the organization did achieve modest success in the de-Nazification of German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. All of the NKFD's members were condemned by the Nazi regime, and, as Schoenhals relates, most were labeled as "Communist traitors" in postwar Germany. Based largely on East German sources and interviews with NKFD veterans in East Germany, this balanced account should serve as a valuable source for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the military history of WW II. An extensive bibliography of secondary sources on the German army's anti-Nazi elements is included. -W.G. Ratliff, Georgia Southern College
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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