German POW's

[Zardnaar]

Is there any good books preferably written by the POWs themselves out there translated into English? Just interested in the stories of German prisoners of war as theres alot of material available about Allied POWs from WW1 and 2. Thinking of writing an Article about this fellow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luckner

for you guys here at CFC as he was interred here in New Zealand and is something of a legend and I have a New Zealand article about him.

 

[Thorbal]

I don´t know any books written by German POWs that have been translated, but there are some excerpts of German books dealing about that on this site. They seem to be currently in the middle of translating the chapters, so some stuff from the original may still be missing. Dunno if that is of any help, but I just stumbled across that site.

( btw, I read the English and German versions and the translations are rather bad sometimes, so if something is sounding very weird, I could look it up )

http://home.arcor.de/kriegsgefangene/memoirs/witnesses.html

Never heard of von Luckner, btw. Most interesting person, it seems, thanks for the link.

 

[nonconformist]

I happen to own a book, which appears to be fairly oscure, called Last Train to Berlin by Hans Peter Marland, who surrendered to the Soviets at the end of the war, and was deported to Russia.
It's a diary of the treatment him and other POWs received, and the condiotions, and even the forced labour in the coal mines, before being repatriated in 1950-somehting.