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Guy Sajer is the pseudonym of Guy Mouminoux who was a well known French comics writer also known under the pseudonym of Dimitri. Sajer was a French citizen living in Alsace, who served as a foreign conscript in the German Army during World War II, fighting the Soviets on the Eastern front in the Großdeutschland Division. Due to a spate of historical inaccuracies, the accuracy and authenticity of Sajer's autobiographical work has been questioned, with proponents on both sides. Division historian for the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland, Major Helmuth Spaeter, after originally claiming Sajer to be a fraud in a 1988 interview, later on recanted his claims and afforded him the benefit of doubt in 1997.

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  • Guy Sajer is the pseudonym of Guy Mouminoux who was a well known French comics writer also known under the pseudonym of Dimitri. Sajer was a French citizen living in Alsace, who served as a foreign conscript in the German Army during World War II, fighting the Soviets on the Eastern front in the Großdeutschland Division. Due to a spate of historical inaccuracies, the accuracy and authenticity of Sajer's autobiographical work has been questioned, with proponents on both sides. Division historian for the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland, Major Helmuth Spaeter, after originally claiming Sajer to be a fraud in a 1988 interview, later on recanted his claims and afforded him the benefit of doubt in 1997.
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  • Guy Sajer is the pseudonym of Guy Mouminoux who was a well known French comics writer also known under the pseudonym of Dimitri. Sajer was a French citizen living in Alsace, who served as a foreign conscript in the German Army during World War II, fighting the Soviets on the Eastern front in the Großdeutschland Division. Due to a spate of historical inaccuracies, the accuracy and authenticity of Sajer's autobiographical work has been questioned, with proponents on both sides. Division historian for the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland, Major Helmuth Spaeter, after originally claiming Sajer to be a fraud in a 1988 interview, later on recanted his claims and afforded him the benefit of doubt in 1997. The book, in reference to the autobiographical soldier's ambiguous relationship to war and its passions, has been called "the account of a disastrous love affair with war and with the army that, of all modern armies, most loved war", being written with the "admiration of a semi-outsider". A movie adaptation of The Forgotten Soldier, written by Michael Frost Beckner and Joel Kassay was in development, but cancelled in July 2009. Paul Verhoeven was previously attached to direct the film.
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