I read a book a few years back (for the life of me I can't remember the name of it) that was written by a WWII German soldier. I found it fascinating as hell.
Sounds interesting!
Also, don't forget "All Quiet on the Western Front".
i found one at a garage sale. it was titled "soldat"....don't remember who wrote it. gave it to a naturalized american who immigrated to the states after the second world war; he was an ex-german soldier. very interesting man. now in his eighties....he painted my mother-in-laws' house way before i knew my wife,in the 1950's.
You may be thinking of The Forgotten Soldier by "Guy Sojer" (a pseudonym), a French lad with a German mother who went to the eastern front to do his duty for western civilization. At the end of the war, we was isolated. The French veterans who actually had war stories to tell couldn't, since they'd fought on the wrong side!
See also the incredible book Iron Coffins, by one of the few U-boat commanders who survived the war, AND the enslavement of 600,000 German military personnel parceled out among the victors (including the French) as "human reparations."
I would note there are several little known memoirs of this sort. Everybody knows about Nichts Neues im Westen - All Quiet on the Eastern Front by Erich Remarque.
One that blows them all away is Le Soldat Oublie - translated as The Forgotten Soldier. Utterly riveting for any historian of the Eastern Front in Great Patriotic War of the Russians.
My only comment about Iwo, the Bushido warrior cult, the Nazis, etc. who caused so much demoniacal misery: None of these satanic movements went away until annihilated. ANNIHILATED. Good for us. Unfortunately, the same logic applies to the Islamonazis - and the morally equivalent mind of the American liberal will never wake up to that fact - only, perhaps, when the knife is literally at his throat (but I doubt it).