![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The veracity of his account has been questioned. At the time of writing (August 2021) he is still alive. He lived in France after the war, illustrating and writing under pen names Dimitri, and Dimitri Lahache. Guy Sajer is the psydonem of Guy Mouminoux, who became a writer and cartoonist after the Second World War. It is one of three accounts in English by former members of the GD. In Spring 1943, he enlisted to fight as a frontline combatant, joining the elite Großdeutschland Division (GD) with whom he served as an infantryman and machine gunner until the end of the war. He was conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1942 aged 16 and posted to a logistics unit, delivering supplies to frontline troops. Sajer was born in 1927 in Lorraine to a French father and German mother, whose maiden name was Sajer. Guy Sajer’s Second World War memoir of his service in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front during the Second World War has been seen as an important work since it was translated into an English edition in 1971. ![]()
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