I started "D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th" by Holger Eckhertz last night. Purchased from Amazon. It's sold as non fiction accounts for German soldiers present on D-Day. (With an elaborate back story of how these accounts were collected.)
I'm half way through and it seems to me to that the style of these supposedly transcribed accounts from different people is suspiciously similar. There's a total absence of anything that could easily identify their specific units or any names beyond the interviewees. In contrast their memory for detail of events is incredible. Blow by blow account of combat after combat which you'd think would be very hard to recollect in detail.
Now it's possible that the high level of recollection is explained by Eckhertz picking the best, most lucid, of hundreds of accounts and the names of people, units and places have been deliberately omitted, however I have my doubts.
Googling Holger Eckhertz revels nothing, apart from writing this series of books. As far as a I can tell no Newspaper has ever reviewed it and there's no photographs of Eckhertz with source material etc.
So I reckon it might be fiction sold as non-fiction and some of the Amazon reviews appear to agree.
What does the panel think? Is is fiction? If so have I been ripped off? Amazon can't be expected to research every book but this does seem to be quite a serious misrepresentation.