Post-War Books

I was looking over my shelves the other day, and I noticed the following titles among the volumes therein kept:

My Life as a Soldier, by Karl Donitz

The First and the Last, by Adolf Galland

Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer

In case the names aren't familiar, they're the memoirs of a World War II German Admiral (and head of the U-Boat fleet), a Luftwaffe General with 104 kills against the Western Allies, and Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Nazis.

They are all books published after the Second World War, by soliders and government officials of the defeated nation. Seems somehow 'off' in my head., that they;d be allowed to publish their side, but that's a free press for you.

So here's my question: in a Nazi victory TL, would any of the defeated Allies have been allowed to publish similar books? Let us say it is a limited Nazi victory, like Fatherland, where they run the show in Europe up to the Urals, and the British are under their thumb.

I expect that, if publication were allowed, it'd have to be suitably censored and toned and so on, and plenty of top officials wouldn't be avaiable, due to having been executed.

So who might, theoretically publish, and what would it be like?
 
The Nazi's are somewhat infamous in some circles as book-burners, and produced a great deal of propaganda (a lot of it was transparently false, but some wasn't). I imagine that books claiming to be the memoirs of defeated generals would exist. Oddly, these would probably include long stories about how they were betrayed by their jew-bolshevik masters, and how much they admired the spirit and determination of German soldiers in comparison to their own troops.

Unwilling Servant of the Jews, by Patton

Abandoned in the Desert and Honored Opponents, by Montgomery

Why we Bombed your Children, by Doolittle

The generals in question probably would have nothing to do with their writing or publication.
 
Welll, West Germany was a democratic country with freedom of the press so when released there the former Nazi leaders could publish their memoirs if they could find a printer

The corollary for imprisoned Allies would depend - would a British general be released into an occupied or Axis Britain, or just a defeated one? Americans presumably would go home and could write what they wanted...

Who? Well the Nazis took more care of officer prisoners than ordinary POWs so it just requires being captured in combat, and to avoid some sort of show-trial (which would probably be rare, why publicise your enemy?).

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
The Nazi's are somewhat infamous in some circles as book-burners, and produced a great deal of propaganda (a lot of it was transparently false, but some wasn't). I imagine that books claiming to be the memoirs of defeated generals would exist. Oddly, these would probably include long stories about how they were betrayed by their jew-bolshevik masters, and how much they admired the spirit and determination of German soldiers in comparison to their own troops.

Unwilling Servant of the Jews, by Patton

Abandoned in the Desert and Honored Opponents, by Montgomery

Why we Bombed your Children, by Doolittle

The generals in question probably would have nothing to do with their writing or publication.
I could certainly believe that, so long as the Reich had control over outside information. A broadcast by Patton over, say, Radio Free Europe would be rather embarrassing if it became widely known.
Welll, West Germany was a democratic country with freedom of the press so when released there the former Nazi leaders could publish their memoirs if they could find a printer

The corollary for imprisoned Allies would depend - would a British general be released into an occupied or Axis Britain, or just a defeated one? Americans presumably would go home and could write what they wanted...
I'd say they'd be released into a defeated UK, and one with a newly-installed pro-Reich government.
 
I could certainly believe that, so long as the Reich had control over outside information. A broadcast by Patton over, say, Radio Free Europe would be rather embarrassing if it became widely known.

IIRC Germany was able to jam broadcasts from England in Germany, though not in France or the low countries.

Counter-propaganda also invites counter-counter propaganda. "That's not the real Patton, the real Patton sounds like this..."
 
IIRC Germany was able to jam broadcasts from England in Germany, though not in France or the low countries.


Not really. I personally know of numerous instances (for example my grandfather) where people listened to BBC broadcasts here in Germany.
 
Earl Oswald Mosley – Decline and fall of the British Empire
Spike Milligan – Adolph Hitler, my part in his victory
Robert Harris – In England’s green an pleasant land
Subhas Chandra Bose – Breaking the chains of Empire
Andrew Cunningham – Victories in defeat
 
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