Reluctant accomplice a wehrmacht soldiers letters from the eastern front princeton university press is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a patriotic german who was skeptical of the nazi leadership and soured on the fascist regime sheldon kirshner canadian jewish news. In this fascinating volume the historian konrad h jarausch presents an edited selection of letters written by his eponymous father to family and friends between september 1939 and january 1942 born in 1900 and thus too old for front line combat the elder jarausch served as a reservist first on occupation duty in the newly conquered poland . Reluctant accomplice a wehrmacht soldiers letters from the eastern front reluctant accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of dr konrad jarausch a german high school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of hitlers army in poland and russia where he died of typhoid in 1942. Reluctant accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of dr konrad jarausch a german high school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of hitlers army in poland and russia where he died of typhoid in 1942 he wrote most of these letters to his wife elisabeth. Peter hayes reluctant accomplice a wehrmacht soldiers letters from the eastern front konrad h jarausch ed princeton nj princeton university press 2011 xviii 392 pp cloth 3500 holocaust and genocide studies volume 25 issue 3 winter 2011 pages 450 452 https doiorg 101093 hgs dcr044