Unique memories of the MG-Schutze (machine gunner) of the motorized infantry units of the 24th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht, who went through the bloodiest battles of the Eastern Front, miraculously escaped from the Stalingrad cauldron, where his entire division died, survived in the utter hell of the Nikopol bridgehead and after a terrible defeat German troops in Romania. Despite the strictest ban, Kinschermann kept a front-line diary throughout the war, on the basis of which this book was written. These memoirs are a rare opportunity to see the Great Patriotic War “from the other side.” Discover the “trench truth” in German. Look into the soul of the enemy. Taste the salty, blood-red snow of the Eastern Front...