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There is at least one article online disputing the historical veracity of the popular book "D-Day Through German Eyes"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rians-claim-German-Eyes-book-fabrication.html (Of course, the Daily Mail might perpetuate its own hoaxes.)
Has there been subsequent confirmation that the journalist who supposedly wrote the original material existed? - or that the people who were supposedly interviewed existed and were present at D-Day?
I've listened to audiobook versions of books 1 & 2 that are available online. (The audio books don't claim to be recordings of interviews, they are people reading the text of the book.) From that (and only that) examination, I favor the theory that the books are a hoax.
My thinking goes this way: The interviews cover many curious aspects of military technology and "less well known" aspects of battles. An author who had a collection of thousands of interviews could select a subset that spanned these topics. However, an author who collected, say, 30 or 40 interviews would be very lucky to find such a range of material. The book presents itself as the work of a single journalist working in the postware Germany of the 1950's. I think it unlikely that he had the resources to collect thousands of interviews.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rians-claim-German-Eyes-book-fabrication.html (Of course, the Daily Mail might perpetuate its own hoaxes.)
Has there been subsequent confirmation that the journalist who supposedly wrote the original material existed? - or that the people who were supposedly interviewed existed and were present at D-Day?
I've listened to audiobook versions of books 1 & 2 that are available online. (The audio books don't claim to be recordings of interviews, they are people reading the text of the book.) From that (and only that) examination, I favor the theory that the books are a hoax.
My thinking goes this way: The interviews cover many curious aspects of military technology and "less well known" aspects of battles. An author who had a collection of thousands of interviews could select a subset that spanned these topics. However, an author who collected, say, 30 or 40 interviews would be very lucky to find such a range of material. The book presents itself as the work of a single journalist working in the postware Germany of the 1950's. I think it unlikely that he had the resources to collect thousands of interviews.