As always, thanks for posting.
A few days ago I finished the book “Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949” by Siegfried Knappe. After his release from Soviet prison Knappe became a US citizen. If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend it. It’s an incredibly riveting read from the perspective of a German staff order who realized far too late of Hitler’s road to the destruction of Germany.
It sounds like a good read. It would be interesting to read an account of a junior officer of serving in the Wehrmacht in the pre-war years. The closest I have come to that is a novel about a rifleman on the Eastern front I read years ago called, I thought, “The Forgotten Soldier.” I just went to Amazon to confirm that and there is a book there with that title on the same subject but it is described as an autobiography. Since the central character in the one I read is KIA at the end it can’t be the same forgotten soldier. Maybe I have the title wrong.