Strafbataillon 999 konsalik biography
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Heinz G. Konsalik
German novelist
Heinz G. Konsalik, pseudonym of Heinz Günther (28 May 1921 – 2 October 1999) was a German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.[1]
During the Second World War he was a war correspondent, which provided many experiences for his novels.[2]
Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (Mask My Agony / The Changed Face) which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over an anti-personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law. Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Naked Earth / The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted as a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.
Life and work in the Nazi era
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Strafbataillon
Military penal unit
Military unit
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A estes batalhões paravam os criminosos, os desertados, os idealistas que o Partido Nazi não tolerava; todos aqueles que contrariam o ideal de “soldado perfeito”. Entre eles está Ernst Deutschmann, um médico erroneamente mal interpretado pelo Partido por inocular em si próprio uma estirpe bacteriana ao qual terá encontrado uma cura. Este gesto é visto como um sinal de desertar ao serviço militar, sendo condenado ao Batalhão Disciplinar. A sua mulher, Julia, luta pela sua inocência, a todos os custos.🤍
Esta história não é só sobre Deutschmann. À semelhança de “All quiet on the western front” e “Vida e Destino”, múltiplas personagens que se encontram envolvidas nesta enorme trama que é a 2WW, principalmente na Frente Russa, apresentam-se-nos. Acedemos a todos os pensamentos, consciências e há uma visão imparcial da Guerra, visto que todos sofrem neste grande conflito.🩶
Não conhecia Konsalik e, na verdade, este livro apa