Background
Edwin Dwinger was born on 23 April 1898 in Kiel. He was a son of a technical officer in the German navy and his mother was of Russian origin.
Edwin Dwinger was born on 23 April 1898 in Kiel. He was a son of a technical officer in the German navy and his mother was of Russian origin.
Dwinger volunteered as a cavalry officer and went to the eastern front in 1915, where he was severely wounded and fell into the hands of the Russians. Sent to Irkutsk and later to eastern Siberia, Dwinger served in Admiral Kolchak's White Army against the Bolsheviks and took part in their catastrophic retreat through Siberia. Eventually he escaped via Mongolia, returning to Germany in 1920.
In 1935 he was made an Obersturmführer in an SS-Reiterstandarte (cavalry regiment). Dwinger continued to write best-selling books under the Third Reich.
During World War II. Dwinger was a war correspondent with a Panzer division in the USSR, receiving authorization from the personal staff of the Reichsführer-SS to study the operations of the SS in the occupied territories. In a letter to Himmler on his return, Dwinger thanked him for his generous assistance and declared his readiness to participate in the new order for Soviet Russia.
After World War II Dwinger continued to write prolifically and to find a readership in Germany.
Dwinger died on 17 December 1981 at the age of eighty-three in Gmund am Tegernsee.
(The last part of the thrilogy suffer from Dwinger's didac...)
1932(The first part of best-selling trilogy based on his Siber...)
1929(The author's impressions of the Spanish Civil War as seen...)
1937(The story about the fate of Freikorps men from the Baltc.)
1935(The English translation of 1930 (Between White and Red). ...)
1930(Utopian war novel about a nuclear world war. It provoked ...)
1957Sie suchten die Freiheit. Schicksalweg eines Reitervolkes
(A novel about the Cossacks.)
1953Wiedersehen mit Sowjetrussland. Tagebuch vom Ostfeldzug
1942Sie suchten die Freiheit. Schicksalweg eines Reitervolkes
1953Dwinger's anti-communism made him acceptable to the Nazis, who considered him an expert on ‘Soviet mass murder'.
His public Opposition to National Socialist Ostpolitik in the Soviet Union - Dwinger did not accept the official view' that the Russians were ‘sub-humans’ - and his contacts with the Russian General Wlassow in the autumn of 1943, led to his house arrest. Dwinger’s anti-Bolshevism did not lead him to embrace Nazi racial theories about the inferior Slavs.