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Hitler’s Deserters
by Lars Petersson
(Fonthill Books, £18.99)
IN Hitler’s Deserters Lars Petersson returns to his study of ordinary German soldiers under the nazi regime which he began in Deserters, published a decade ago.
In it he recounts the fate of the estimated 50,000 German soldiers who deserted their units during the second world war, of whom 20,000 were executed by firing squad, hanging or beheading.
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