Larry - Do you really translate as well as transcribe your epic excerpts? What an undertaking!
BroJoeK's holocaust documentation and Larry381's historical accounts of the German soldier are difficult to reconcile. Unfathomable evil along side heroic self-sacrifice. After thinking it over for 50 years I still don't get it.
Most of what I post comes from books that are already in English. You are the one who deserves all the thanks for this massive undertaking about World War 2. BTW-your quote about "Unfathomable evil along side heroic self-sacrifice" brings to mind a quotation by F Scott Fitzgerald: “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
The war in Russia has always interested me mostly because my (now deceased) favorite uncle spent most of his war fighting there (on the German side)
BTW: I've found some additional information on our friend Ralph Parker-journalist for The Times (of London) and the NY Times: