I can never wholly escape the doubt about whether the past ought best be forgotten, since it ended in such a singular catastrophe - above all, for the people some thought to be inferior, but also for ourselves. Is there a more convincing proof of the falseness of all our former truths?
There is another nagging doubt: Am I giving up my own self in the course of concealing my true identity as a volunteer of the Waffen-SS? Am I leaving behind the person I was (together with the dead and the outlaws) and trying to reach the other side, the land of the righteous? Am I already wandering about in a moral No-Man’s Land?
Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience, Johann Voss
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Thank you for posting this Lux, this book is up there with Guy Sajer in my opinion as far as German bios from the German perspective.