Veteran’s Association, and edited by the most-able, brilliant Hans Quassowski, “ . . . a man whowith the zeal, persistence, knowledge, and untiring patience to approach veterans again andagain in order to get the last of the circle’s few to speak and write”. For us World War II buffs,curious to understand “the other side, the enemy side, perhaps the cruelest opposing side theearth has yet fostered, big, formatted books such as this one puts us at the core of the events,the deaths, the heroics, the victories and defeats, the joys and sadness, and, yes, the lies andexaggerations perpetrated by Dr. (Ph.D) Josef Goebbels’ personal handbook of propaganda tofool the German people and non-committed world. See pages 82 – 83, “The War Years 1939 –1945 – – Causes that Led to the Second World War”. Yes, sadly, written by Quassowski. Almost80 years later, those lies are so embarrassingly blatantly, so offensively obtrusive, that thereader who knows better blushes redder than a field of tomatoes at sunset.Yet, it is the same Hans Quassowski who concludes his Foreword with, “We, of the Veteran’sAssociation, hope that with this book we have painted a picture of the 1 st Company in peaceand in war that will make clear, not just to those who took part then, but also to the outsider,what we were and what we wanted: we lived and served from the spirit of our time, the time of
the Third Reich, those years from 1933 to 1945.”
