Reddit reviews Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

Not even remotely.

This dude is obviously pretty war hardened, he doesn't even flinch when the explosion goes of. I just recently started reading Blood Red Snow and this first couple of chapters illustrate this kind of hardened mentality that you come into after your first couple of weeks in a combat zone.

There are plenty of memoirs from the German perspective that have been translated into English. However when compared to the number of sources that were written originally by English speakers, the number of German memoirs is puny. After years of reading the accounts of allied soldiers, airmen, and sailors, I became interested in reading the opposite point of view and have collected and read about 30 different accounts of German Soldiers, but I have yet to find any from the perspective of a child serving in the Hitler Youth or that of a pensioner pressed into service with the Volkstrumm.

Though I do not know of any, I highly suspect that they are out there, but more than likely the works are still in their native tongue, and have yet to be translated to English, etc.

Edit: Here's my Top 5 memoirs, for those looking to get into in a first person German perspective.

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1. Blood Red Snow by Guenter Koschorrek
   
   1. (Memoirs of a German Machine Gunner with the 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad & on the Eastern Front. What I believe is the best, most well organized, and most thrilling account that I have ever read set in the Second World War.)
      
2. Sniper on the Eastern Front: Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger by Albrecht Wacker
   
   1. (Memoirs of a German Sniper serving in Army Group South. The account is just astonishing, but I'm afraid its also incredibly graphic; It is not for the faint of heart.)
      
3. At Leningrad's Gates by William Lubbeck
   
   1. (Memoirs of a German Forward Observer in the 58th Infantry Division of Army Group North. What is extraordinary about this account is that Mr. Lubbeck recalls and tells the story of his entire life, including his experiences during the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1930s.)
      
4. Duel under the Stars by Wilhelm Johnen
   
   1. Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Pilot, serving in a night fighter wing tasked with defending German Cities from the British Night-time bombing raids.)
      
5. Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius
   
   1. (Memoirs of Germany's second most decorated Tiger Ace, Otto Carius. However his account felt too short and incomplete to me. Still would recommend based on his unique posting as a Tank Loader, then Tank Commander of Germany's feared Tiger Tank.)