Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad during World War II. Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages (into English by Anthony G. Powell in 1956), and has been issued in numerous editions. French president François Mitterrand supposedly carried the French edition with him in the last months of his life, and drew inspiration from it in writing his speech for the 50th anniversary of the end of the war on the 8 May 1995.
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| - Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad (de)
- Ultime lettere da Stalingrado (libro) (it)
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| - Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad war der Titel einer erstmals 1950 in Westdeutschland erschienenen Anthologie, die in viele Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Sie enthielt angeblich authentische Kriegsbriefe deutscher Soldaten von der Schlacht um Stalingrad. (de)
- Ultime lettere da Stalingrado è il titolo di un'antologia di lettere pubblicata nella Germania Occidentale nel 1950. Contiene le missive presumibilmente autentiche scritte da soldati tedeschi nell'ultimo periodo della battaglia di Stalingrado, nel dicembre 1942. (it)
- Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad during World War II. Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages (into English by Anthony G. Powell in 1956), and has been issued in numerous editions. French president François Mitterrand supposedly carried the French edition with him in the last months of his life, and drew inspiration from it in writing his speech for the 50th anniversary of the end of the war on the 8 May 1995. (en)
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| - Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad war der Titel einer erstmals 1950 in Westdeutschland erschienenen Anthologie, die in viele Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Sie enthielt angeblich authentische Kriegsbriefe deutscher Soldaten von der Schlacht um Stalingrad. (de)
- Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad during World War II. Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages (into English by Anthony G. Powell in 1956), and has been issued in numerous editions. The German High Command wished to gauge the morale of the troops of the encircled 6th Army, so they allowed the soldiers to write and send the letters which became the basis for Last Letters from Stalingrad. The letters were then impounded, opened, stripped of identification and sorted by content, before eventually being stored in archives. Unlike the usual military history accounts focusing on mass armies of anonymous men, the reader is presented with the personal tragedies of individual soldiers, the "single human being ... in the face of death", getting a tangible impression of the horrors of war. The letters are a "human document which bares the soul of the man at his worst hour", and by softening the identification of Germany with Nazism the book helped Germany to take its place in the Western post-war community of nations. French president François Mitterrand supposedly carried the French edition with him in the last months of his life, and drew inspiration from it in writing his speech for the 50th anniversary of the end of the war on the 8 May 1995. (en)
- Ultime lettere da Stalingrado è il titolo di un'antologia di lettere pubblicata nella Germania Occidentale nel 1950. Contiene le missive presumibilmente autentiche scritte da soldati tedeschi nell'ultimo periodo della battaglia di Stalingrado, nel dicembre 1942. (it)
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