Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS

The author is a loyal member of his division’s veterans’ group, and his bona fides are impeccable. Before The Aberjona Press published this book, to the extent possible, his accounts of action, especially against the US Army, were vetted against primary sources in the National Archives, by examination of unit histories, and by interviews with American veterans who fought against the author’s unit. Extensive research has been carried out by LTC Hugh Foster, US Army (Ret.) with hundreds of American survivors of the author’s regiment’s savage battle against them at Reipertswiller, Alsace, in January 1945. The author’s recollections are completely supported by the available evidence. He has produced that rarest of memoirs, one that is untainted by gross hindsight or recast to fit later interpretations.