Franz Kurowski - 'Knights of the Wehrmacht'

[Forward00]

After finishing 'Knights of the Reich' by Günter Fraschka (I thought it was well written and enjoyed it) I'm looking at 'Knights of the Wehrmacht' books, are they worth buying?

[Mori]

Have you looked at this article on Kurowski by Roman Töppel: https://www.academia.edu/37429738/The_W ... owski_2018_

This will certainly answer your question.

[Larso]

Thanks for posting that Mori, I enjoyed reading that.

[stolypin]

Have you looked at this article on Kurowski by Roman Töppel: https://www.academia.edu/37429738/The_W ... owski_2018_

This will certainly answer your question.

Yes, it's important to read books only by authors with the most prestigious and impeccable credentials, such as professor of history and founder of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, Stephen Ambrose. You can rest assured that every page he wrote was entirely accurate and free of any content attributable to other authors.

Another good one is New York Times journalist, Walter Duranty. All of his writings were rock solid in every way -- proven by the fact that he won the Pulitzer Prize.

[Michael Kenny]

Yes, it's important to read books only by authors with the most prestigious and impeccable credentials, such as professor of history and founder of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, Stephen Ambrose. You can rest assured that every page he wrote was entirely accurate and free of any content attributable to other authors.

There is plenty of criticism of Ambrose here so your 'whataboutism' will not work. Kurowski is a well-know fantasists and no one who cares about the facts would bother reading the rubbish he churned out.

See this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af59LYC ... DocsOnline

and watch how badly he reacts when confronted with his lies.


and this will show how it is impossible for him to have done any real research for his fictional history books.

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[J. Duncan]

I had one title by this guy “End of the Reich” or some such title. Zzzzzzzz a big snooze of a book.
I threw it out.

[DT-SC]

Kurowski is a brand, and a very stable brand it is; you know exactly what you will get

[stolypin]

Yes, it's important to read books only by authors with the most prestigious and impeccable credentials, such as professor of history and founder of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, Stephen Ambrose. You can rest assured that every page he wrote was entirely accurate and free of any content attributable to other authors.

There is plenty of criticism of Ambrose here so your 'whataboutism' will not work. Kurowski is a well-know fantasists and no one who cares about the facts would bother reading the rubbish he churned out.

See this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af59LYC ... DocsOnline

and watch how badly he reacts when confronted with his lies.


and this will show how it is impossible for him to have done any real research for his fictional history books.

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And let us not forget that scoundrel Solzhenitsyn who dared attempt a history of the Soviet Union's Gulag system (the "Gulag Archipelago"). He was NOT a historian (merely holding degrees in mathematics and physics) and he ADMITTED having no access to any official records. All of his previous works were fiction and thus any attempted work of non-fiction by someone as unqualified as him should never have been published. But since it was published, we can at least encourage readers today to disregard him as "fantasist."

[Mori]

@stolypin: instead of talking of other authors, why don't you explain what's to praise with Kurowski?

[Cult Icon]

Kurkowski's "aces" books would be classified as "creative non-fiction" today and not history. I think he is ahead of his time in this regard as creative non-fiction is what sells and are in the front rows of bookstores all the time. This is what they use to make movies and TV shows "based on a true story". Also journalists spend most of their time doing this type of activity. There wasn't a distinctive name for this genre until the 2000s and there are courses and degrees eg. MFA with people who are trained in this.

Basically what they do is use a small pool of facts and then spin up quasi-fictional interpretations of what happened in a way that is more excitement driven.

His Hermann Goering division book however is researched and written differently, more like a typical old unit history. I heard his Stug book is like that too but I don't have it.