Willi Heinrich

Born in Heidelberg and educated in Karlsruhe, he entered the German Army in 1938, serving on the Eastern Front with the 101st Jäger Division where repeated wounds and the unit’s heavy losses later supplied material for his debut novel, Das geduldige Fleisch (1955). The book’s stark portrayal of frontline conflict earned swift translation into English as The Willing Flesh and Cross of Iron, and in… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources