According to an article in Der Spiegel by Klaus Wiegrefe, many personal memoirs of Allied soldiers have been wilfully ignored by historians until now because they were at odds with the "greatest generation" mythology surrounding World War II.
根据《明镜周刊》克劳斯·威格里夫的一篇文章，直到现在，许多同盟国士兵的个人回忆录一直被历史学家故意忽视，因为他们与围绕第二次世界大战的“最伟大一代”神话格格不入。