A German Deserter's War Experience Full Audiobook by War & Military

Full Audiobooks on YouTube ^ | Aug 2, 2017 (1917) | ANONYMOUS

[Berlin_Freeper]

The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have his name made public, fearing reprisals against his relatives. The vivid description of the life of a common German soldier during “The Great War” aroused much interest when it was published in the United States in serial form. Here was a warrior against his will, a hater of militarism for whom there was no romance in war, but only butchery and brutality, grime and vermin, inhuman toil and degradation. His story also contains the first German description of the retreat of the Teutonic armies after the battle of the Marne. – From the Translator’s Preface - Summary by Lee Smalley

[Berlin_Freeper]

Free audiobook on YouTube. There are some communist ideals in statements about the worker class etc, but not much compared to the described horrors of that war.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Here are British soldier stories of WW1, which includes anti-German propaganda:
Now It Can Be Told (FULL Audiobook) - part 1/2
https://youtu.be/ARD-xXwKI3A
Now It Can Be Told (FULL Audiobook) - part 2/2
https://youtu.be/NU0MtoaDYWc

[alexander_busek]

The one chapter mentioning that "annoying Austrian corporal and his insane antisemitic rants" is especially interesting.

Regards,

[Berlin_Freeper]

William L. Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. (Part 1)