Honor Denied: The Combat Memoirs of SS Radio Operator Karl Metzger

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	Honor Denied: The Combat Memoirs of SS Radio Operator Karl Metzger Karl Metzger, Paul K Harker Outskirts Press, 2007 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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We did not aim and fire our rifles for Adolf Hitler or National Socialism. We did it for our fellow comrade soldiers.

At 17 years of age the German military seemed a wise choice to Karl von Metzger. Following enlistment he was sent to Radio School at Kiel to train as a wireless operator on a U-Boat. However, a shortage of radio operators changed his destiny by reassignment to the 2nd SS Das Reich Regiment. Karl participated in the invasion of the Low Countries and France in 1940 and believed in the cultural and historical significance of the war. A transfer to the 5th SS Wiking Regiment in 1941 took him to the Eastern Front where years of brutal combat and mindless suicidal orders forced him to question the political motives of Nazi Germany's war. While growing into manhood under barbaric hand-to-hand combat, merciless firefights and vicious artillery bombardments, Metzger clung to shreds of his boyhood innocence. He watched his comrade soldiers get pulverized by bombs and bullets until he abandoned his faith in the Third Reich with a resolve to survive the war. Metzger fought on the Eastern and Western Fronts through the harshest of conditions. Whereas the war began for him as a boy, it ended for him as a man. This is his story.

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Honor Denied

As far as German memoirs go, this is the best I've read. It shows you that SS soldiers were human beings with families, careers and feelings instead of the mindless killing-machines we've been led to believe.

This book contains things that only a real front line soldier could know and the way he expresses it with his words is incredible. There are passages that talk about National Socialism and its hold over Germany and Europe, and Metzger discusses it frankly. He doesn't pull any punches within his text. He tells his story in a way that makes you a fellow soldier in his unit. A very good book that deserves to be read by others.

It's shameful that some detractors from the Axis History Forum and Feldgrau are on a campaign to muddy and tarnish not only this book, but Directive 19 and the authors and compiler. Read the comments under their reviews. You will see for yourself that these detractors, especially Axis History Forum's Michael D. Miller, thinks nothing about using foul language, slurs against a respected Rabbi, slurs against women and jokes about the handicapped in order to try to convince you not to read this book.

Read this book. You deserve to.

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Honor Denied

A revisionist book, full of inaccuracies. He, the author states he is using a panzerfaust in 1940 during the invasion of France! Sorry, the Panzerfaust did not come into production until 1942, and really not even fielded until 1943. If he had been there, he would have known, without any doubts, that he could not even harm Soviet tanks in the 1941 scenarios he plays out using a panzerfaust. 37mm doorknockers is what he would have had available and many other improvised tank killers like tellar mines and hand grenade bundles. He acknowledges being an SS trooper (pre-1940) and denies any anti-semetic feelings or teachings. Rommel had a whole staff to take care of combined arms work, not just some young trooper. I have not finished the book, because he is like Sajer, full of inaccuracies, including where he was during Barbarossa. Wiking was in Army Group North, not south.

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