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However, if you insist I would sum up German memoirs the same way Koshkin did:
(can be found here in Russian, original is not mine: http://armor.kiev.ua/humor/txt/ger.php)

 

- We lost because of Hitler. Hitler was a fool. German soldier - best Soldier. German commander - like Friedrich the Great but without the vices.
- Russians buried us under their corpses. Russians were too numerous. Russian soldier - is a beast, he eats that could not run from it, sleeps while standing like a horse, and sneaks around. Author numerous times witnessed how whole armies sneaked through the front line, nothing was giving away their presence - normal artillery preparation, aerial bombardment and then suddenly there is an entire Russian Tank Army in your rear.
- SS was sometimes taking it too far. I mean, they should have been content with the regular marauding, mass executions by firing squads and occasional rape, without which the German Soldier would suffer from over abundance of energy and jolly spirit. Most of population on the new territories would have accepted us then.
- Russians had T34. It is unfair. We didn't have such tank.
- Russians had too many anti tank guns. Every soldier had an anti tank gun, they would hide with those in small crevices, in the tall grass, in the tree roots.
- Russians had way too many Mongolians. Mongolians backed up by commissars are a scary thing.
- Russians had commissars. Commissars are scary. Most commissars were Jews. We killed our Jews, Himler was a fool, we would have won with Jewish commissars (comment from Ika - this should not be viewed offensive for the Jewish).
- Russians were using an unfair move - they would pretend that they were surrendering and then would shoot us in the back. Once a whole Russian Tank Corps would kill in this way a German Heavy Tank Battalion.
- Russians were killing German Troops. This was unfair, as everyone knows that it is only allowed for Germans to kill Russians, not the other way round.
- Allies betrayed us. British and Americans that is.