We are all part of the history of the world. Erich Scharf, always viewed his life as part of a chain, a Jewish chain. He loved and lived history from a Jewish perspective. Erich, was not a rigorous 'religious' Jew. If anything, his interests in Physics and Philosophy probably had as great an influence in molding his beliefs, as did his experiences with Zionism and being raised Jewish in 1920-30s Vienna, amidst the rise of fascism and virulent antisemitism. As a teenager, he survived the po...

An autobiographical memoir of Erich Scharf, who lived under Nazi occupation for a year in Austria. He and his family escaped in 1939, when he was 17, and emigrated to the United States. After the US entered the war, he found himself in the US Army and served in Europe first in the Rangers 1st Battalion, then in the First Special Service Force (a/k/a the Devils Brigade). Because of his skill in speaking German, he became an interrogator of German prisoners.

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History is always written by the victors. . . this is the other sie of the coin. This is the front line perspective on World War II as seen through the eyes of the losing side, the men who fought for Hitler.These are the recollections of the men of the Kriegsmarine, the Luftwaffe and the Heer. Altogether they formed the Wehrmacht which in 1940 was the most efficient fighting force the world had ever seen. By 1942 the tide had begun to turn and the men of the once mighty Wehrmacht fought in...

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The first special service forces of World War II were known as the Devil's Brigade. Ferocious and stealthy combatants, they garnered their moniker from the captured diary of a German officer who wrote, "The black devils are all around us every time we come into line and we never hear them." Handpicked U.S. and Canadian soldiers trained in mountaineering, airborne, and close-combat skills, they numbered more than 2,300 and saw action in the Aleutians, Italy, and the south of France. Co-writ...