ks later deciding he wanted to join the French Army and served until the war ended. This memoir is about the struggle of fighting to survive while still trying to maintain your comradeship and working hard for what you believe in. Guy Sajer’s real name is Guy Mouminoux but when he listed for the military he listed under his mother’s maiden name. Sajer is known as a French Writer who wrote The Forgotten Soldier or Le soldat oublie. After his time in war, he became a cartoonist under the pen name Dimitri or Dimitri Lahache. He wrote about the time and his experience on the Eastern Front during World War II. He states that he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht at the early age of sixteen and fought in the Großdeutschland Division. Some of
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Nash stated in 1997 that he had recently contacted Guy Sajer. He stated that “After 18 months of research, I was able to locate Sajer. He lives in a rural village approximately 50 miles east of Paris under his nom de plume. Although not his real last name, Sajer is his mother’s maiden name. She was born in Gotha, Germany. He enlisted in the German Wehrmacht in 1942 under a German name to avoid the ridicule he would have received had he used his real French last name. To verify his books authenticity, I asked Sajer a series of questions that had been raised by Kennedy in a Spring 1992 Army History article tilted The Forgotten Soldier: Fiction or Fact?” Sajer quickly responded to Douglas Nash’s query. “I admit to the minor details such as uniform insignia, weapons nomenclatures and other things that were not important to him, I stand by what I wrote 30 years ago.” Sajer insisted that he didn’t he wrote about what only he had personally experienced while fighting in the elite Grossdeutschland division on the Russian Front. While also admitting that he may have erred in locations and the order events took place, but stating he wrote things as he remembered them. In his letter to Nash he also stated, “In the darkness of a night in Russia, you could have told me that we were in China, and I would have believed you.” After hearing this from Sajer, Nash was feeling a lot more confident that his book was fact not
Nash stated in 1997 that he had recently contacted Guy Sajer. He stated that “After 18 months of research, I was able to locate Sajer. He lives in a rural village approximately 50 miles east of Paris under his nom de plume. Although not his real last name, Sajer is his mother’s maiden name. She was born in Gotha, Germany. He enlisted in the German Wehrmacht in 1942 under a German name to avoid the ridicule he would have received had he used his real French last name. To verify his books authenticity, I asked Sajer a series of questions that had been raised by Kennedy in a Spring 1992 Army History article tilted The Forgotten Soldier: Fiction or Fact?” Sajer quickly responded to Douglas Nash’s query. “I admit to the minor details such as uniform insignia, weapons nomenclatures and other things that were not important to him, I stand by what I wrote 30 years ago.” Sajer insisted that he didn’t he wrote about what only he had personally experienced while fighting in the elite Grossdeutschland division on the Russian Front. While also admitting that he may have erred in locations and the order events took place, but stating he wrote things as he remembered them. In his letter to Nash he also stated, “In the darkness of a night in Russia, you could have told me that we were in China, and I would have believed you.” After hearing this from Sajer, Nash was feeling a lot more confident that his book was fact not