Daniel DUFOUR Posted 27 July , 2023 Share Posted 27 July , 2023 I’d like to read memoirs and/or diaries written by German POWs captured by Allieds during WW1. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 27 July , 2023 Share Posted 27 July , 2023 Can you read German? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel DUFOUR Posted 27 July , 2023 Author Share Posted 27 July , 2023 Unfortunately not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 27 July , 2023 Share Posted 27 July , 2023 I‘m not aware of any that have been translated into english, sorry. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel DUFOUR Posted 27 July , 2023 Author Share Posted 27 July , 2023 Thanks for getting back to me Charlie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave G Posted 27 July , 2023 Share Posted 27 July , 2023 There are a few English translations of Austro-Hungarian/German soldiers in Russian captivity. Most are lightly to heavily fictionalized. To name a few: Ferdinand Horvath. Captured! Edwin Dwinger. Prisoner of War Karl Wilke. Prisoner Halm If I think of others I'll add them. All the best, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave G Posted 27 July , 2023 Share Posted 27 July , 2023 Another: Rodion Markovits. Siberian Diary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel DUFOUR Posted 27 July , 2023 Author Share Posted 27 July , 2023 Awesome! Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resurgam13 Posted 28 July , 2023 Share Posted 28 July , 2023 "My Escape from Donington Hall preceded by an account of the siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915" by Kapitanleutnant Gunther Pluschow of the German Air Service deals in part with his time as a PoW in England as is available via Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49264/49264-h/49264-h.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 28 July , 2023 Share Posted 28 July , 2023 40 minutes ago, Resurgam13 said: "My Escape from Donington Hall preceded by an account of the siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915" by Kapitanleutnant Gunther Pluschow of the German Air Service deals in part with his time as a PoW in England as is available via Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49264/49264-h/49264-h.htm Isn't that a translation from his book "Die Abenteuer des Fliegers von Tsingtau" from 1916? In which case it was published under wartime censorship... Something to keep in mind when reading the book. Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel DUFOUR Posted 28 July , 2023 Author Share Posted 28 July , 2023 Oh wow. Thank you so much to you both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWK Posted 28 July , 2023 Share Posted 28 July , 2023 Elsa Brändström: Unter Kriegsgefangenen in Rußland und Sibirien – 1914–1920 (German and Austrian POW's - "Elsa Brändström: Among prisoners of war in Russia and Siberia 1914-1920) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Brändström Yeah, only in German (there's a version in Swedish, which might not help at all) But maybe you can find yourself a German (or Swedish) friend to translate it for you for some Poutine and side-drinks? I can't send you the PDF file as it 17.5 MB, so "GWF Computer says NO" Can send it you by PM I think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel DUFOUR Posted 29 July , 2023 Author Share Posted 29 July , 2023 Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knittinganddeath Posted 31 July , 2023 Share Posted 31 July , 2023 Alon Rachamimov's book POWs and the Great War : captivity on the Eastern Front has a bibliography with primary sources. They are overwhelmingly in German and have not been translated but here are the three in English that may possibly be relevant for you. Dwinger, Edwin Erich. Between White and Red. Trans. Marion Saunders. New York: Scribner & Sons, 1932. Dyboski, Roman. Seven Years in Russia & Siberia 1914-1921. Trans. Marion Moore Coleman. Cherry Hill Books, 1971. Dyboski was an ethnic Pole and the book was originally published in Polish in 1922, but technically he could have been a member of the German military. Price, Hereward T. Boche and Bolshevik: Experiences of an Englishman in the German Army and Russian Prisons. London: John Murray, 1919. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel DUFOUR Posted 1 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 1 August , 2023 Hey, that’s a great hint! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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