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schnickelfritz The only other time I heard the word was in the film Stalag XVII. You may or may not be familiar with the film - about a Prisoner of War camp during WWII starring William Holden and directed by Otto Preminger. In any event, the prisoners trained mice to race on a little mini...

You may also want to consider Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. It is an epic look at the Battle of Stalingrad by a wonderful author. It has been compared with War and Peace. It isn't quite all that - but the comparison is not laughable. Well translated by Robert Chandler.

You might want to try these little known books by Gert Ledig. Ledig was a young German who fought in the Second World War. He was injured during the Battle of Leningrad and spent the remainder of the war working in Hamburg. He wrote two books The Stalin Organ by Gert Ledig and Michael...