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World War Ii Critique

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Running Head: WORLD WAR II CRITIQUE World War II Critique Institutional Affiliation Date 1 WORLD WAR II CRITIQUE 2 Name: What role did conditions at the front play in shaping Sajer and Sledge's experience of war? Guy Sajer wrote about his experiences during WWII at the Eastern Front and how that affected his mental state. At first, he wanted to play his patriotic duty, but it ended up as a victim of the whole operation. Sager describes when he saw the Russian prisoners mistreated beyond rational expectations with so many of them killed in the process. He had not seen death occurring like this before as the partisan attacks was taking place, leading to the massacre of more than 90,000 individuals (Sajer, 182). When he was helping other wooden soldiers in a truck, he went through harassment by the German soldiers who branded him a scum. The truck he was driving was attacked, which forced him and his friends to survive through the bullets and violence from Germans. Everything was getting out of hand, and he was more traumatized during the Berlin bombing while dealing with the Nazi Regime. The war was not a victorious experience for Sajer who states to have gone through fatigue, hunger, fear, sadness, and felt forgotten when he went back home (Sajer, 164). Sledge also describes his experiences at the Peleliu as a marine which was almost similar to Sajer’s narration. He had expected it to be a victorious interaction, but when the Japanese strategized on attacking the Ameri ...
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