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|title=The True German: The Diary of a World War II Military Judge

|sort=True German: Diary of a World War II Military Judge, The

|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan

|date=October 2013

|summary=Surely the tale of a good and true German, as the diary of this military judge shows he did not exactly agree with anything regarding the end days of World War Two.

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We've had diaries of teenagers, opium addicts, drug smugglers, and a lot more. Some of them have been optimistic, happy things, and many not. Clearly World War II was not a place for a terribly cheerful outlook, whatever the diarist. However sometimes it was not the done thing to be pessimistic, for example when you were in the huge German military and were publicly denigrating the dreamt-of Nazi success. Such ''corrosion of morale'' would mean you being put in front of a three-man military tribunal, and most probably sentenced for such treacherous behaviour. The startling thing about this book, however, is that it contains much that would certainly have been deemed ''corrosion of morale'', yet it was written by one of the very military judges who served on those panels.