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A review by karinlib
Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold
To be honest, I don't know how to rate this book. It was a very compelling book. This is a novel about two German brothers, and the elder brother's son during WWII. The tone of the book gives one the impression that these brothers, one an officer in the SS, and the other a commandant of a concentration camp, didn't have a choice about what they did during the war. The hint here (my opinion), seems to be that they were not totally responsible for the lives they destroyed.
I don't think this book should be read in a vacuum, it should be read with other books like [b:Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin|6572270|Bloodlands Europe Between Hitler and Stalin |Timothy Snyder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328843543s/6572270.jpg|6765357], [b:Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East|11824810|Ostkrieg Hitler's War of Extermination in the East|Stephen G. Fritz|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348120663s/11824810.jpg|16779350].
I don't think this book should be read in a vacuum, it should be read with other books like [b:Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin|6572270|Bloodlands Europe Between Hitler and Stalin |Timothy Snyder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328843543s/6572270.jpg|6765357], [b:Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East|11824810|Ostkrieg Hitler's War of Extermination in the East|Stephen G. Fritz|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348120663s/11824810.jpg|16779350].