If you are looking for an...
incredible autobiography (that has never been discussed on this Forum, I don't believe?) - try "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. It is a view of an enlisted man's life on the Eastern Front and is starkly brutal in telling how cruel and brutal "it really was", as seen through the eyes of someone who lived through it.
Buy the book, you'll understand and sympathize. I guarantee you, you'll never be able to empathize with the conditions, though...
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