The Great Patriotic War ended long ago, but information about that era is still of interest. Helmut Weisswald is a person who has something to tell on this topic. For himself, he preferred not the convenience and luxury of civilization, but the secrets of the thickets of forests of the former Leningrad Front, the rust of sinister barbed wire and the riddles of shells that had covered decades from the mysteries of decades gone by, grown into trees. His views are very interesting. However, they cannot be perceived unambiguously by the Russian audience. The reasons for this, as well as more about the activities and work of a person who calls himself a search writer, will be described later.
Views and lifestyle
Helmut in people appreciates most of all devotion to the business chosen for life, perseverance and determination. He can be called a scientist who is actively practicing in the field of military archeology. Helmut Weisswald is a blogger and writer because he seeks to convey to others what he learns by making his discoveries. And he firmly believes that you can earn something only by achieving the desired.
Interest in the events of the Second World War is not at all surprising in this man, because his grandmother was a German noblewoman, a native of Berlin, who was named after Anna von Weisswald. She married the Russian military before the revolution, thus changing her citizenship and moving to her husband in St. Petersburg. She raised her grandson in accordance with German traditions, instilling in him a desire for self-improvement, in order to win, faith in higher ideals, imagination and perseverance.
At one time, the ancestors of Helmut Weisswald, for obvious reasons, suffered from government repression in the Soviet era. This could not but affect the views of this writer and military archaeologist, who since childhood has been interested in everything related to the history of Germany and the German people close to him in spirit.
Biographical Information
Helmut Weisswald considers himself a creative person. He studied as an artist and journalist, writes music, poetry, draws paintings, likes to play the guitar, admires Nietzsche's philosophy. He created many books and scripts for films, but given the atypical views of Russia for Russia, one should not be particularly surprised that 12 publishing houses of our country flatly refused to publish his literary works. He traveled enough, but having traveled to many countries, he kept his heart for Germany.
Helmut Weisswald’s biography contains many sad events. He remained an orphan and lost his mother when he was only 2 years old. The grave, half-unconscious childhood impressions associated with this, he retained for life. In a man, he most appreciates dignity in the fight against enemies and tenderness for loved ones.
Life aspirations
Now the life of Helmut Weisswald is an eternal search and creativity. Gathering a backpack with things where there is nothing superfluous, he goes to take secrets from the past. From the benefits of civilization, he leaves for his world, full of inconveniences, difficulties and fascinating discoveries. There he remains face to face with the unknown and providence, hoping only for him.
Bonfire nights awaken his imagination. Impressed by what he saw and his own fantasies, Weisswald writes books where his characters live on the most typical human feelings: they fall in love, experience the difficulties of war, show heroism and die with dignity. As an author, he enjoys creating human characters and fates that only he, Helmut Weisswald, has power over. How many years have passed since those events? But everything that the writer comes up with could happen in reality. And even what has never happened is experienced by his characters. He writes in order to open unknown horizons full of historical puzzles and amazing adventures.
In the Internet
On the World Wide Web, this man is quite famous for the numerous videos called "Cope for War." Helmut Weisswald shares with the audience his impressions of traveling through the forests of the Leningrad Front. He talks about interesting finds of the war, reads his poems, talks with the audience about eternal values, love and human relationships.
The finds of this search writer are really very interesting, diverse, multifaceted and informative. There is everything from military trophies to items that were used by Russian and German soldiers during the brutal war. Photos of the most interesting artifacts found were posted on the Internet together in the video “Cope for War”. Helmut Weisswald provides them with his comments, believing that they can be informative and useful to others. Sometimes he himself asks questions to his readers and viewers.
Negative assessment of creativity
Why is the work of this writer-search engine evaluated by Russian readers far from ambiguous? The inhabitants of our country simply cannot accept many of his views. On the one hand, the heroes of the mentioned works cannot but arouse sympathy, being strong, whole personalities, deeply worried and feeling. But on the other hand, they are clearly associated with some "debris of the superman."
The events told by the author of the books are interesting in historical and spiritual terms and are perceived when reading vividly and in one breath. But here the bias under which everything moves, many do not like. Among readers' comments, one can notice emotional and angry remarks of the type: “Definitely fascists! They are all animals! ” And such a manifestation of feelings for the books of Helmut Weisswald should be considered quite understandable and justified. Not everyone wants to read works where the memory of their ancestors, their heroism and ideals are humiliated and trampled into the mud.
About war
Reader positions expressing sympathy for German soldiers are also frequent. After all, these were ordinary people with their experiences and destinies. They thought, loved, and it is possible that they did not at all want a war that crippled their lives. And the true enemy was only the one who fanned and continues to fan fierce, bloody conflicts between nations, sending people to kill each other.
But even in this context, it is difficult to accept some statements by Helmut Weissald that wars are necessary as a shake-up for humanity. Without them, people, he believes, begin to rot from a good life and excessive abundance. It turns out that the war in some way changes the values that are accepted in a peaceful life for the better? In our country, people are accustomed to believing that bloody conflicts are an absolute evil. And war is the worst event that can happen, especially if it is a global cataclysm.
The heroes of the books of this writer, German soldiers, are largely idealized and whitewashed in his works, and at the same time, Soviet soldiers are displayed in black colors. This expresses the individual vision of the author.
Silence of Heaven
But war is also a philosophical concept. Interesting thoughts about this were expressed in Helmut Weisswald's book Silence of Heaven. Among her horrors, cannonade and shooting, he saw a mystical allegory of the special relationship of people and the land that gave rise to them during this bloody period. Death rules the ball, gaining power over a silent and serene world. Every day she swallows thousands of lives, and their land takes them. And the mournful sounds of the mourning melody are carried along with the souls of the fallen into the distance. This book is about the blockade of Leningrad. But the tragic military history of this city and the heroism of its people are presented in this work from a completely different, unusual side. And the passage to the work is an excerpt from the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus cries over the fate of the great city, mourning for his sins.
The Cursed Way
A soldier is fighting for his ideals. When he dies in the war and goes nowhere, in that eternity it doesn’t matter what and against whom he fought, what he believed in and what form he wore. So Helmut Weisswald considers. His book, entitled The Cursed Path, tells of the Weimar Republic. A German boy from an ancient noble family falls in love with a Jewish girl named Sarah. But they are not destined to live a happy life. The well-known sad events in Germany and the political upheaval turn this country into the Third Reich. A young man becomes an officer, and he faces a difficult choice: the betrayal of the memory of his ancestors or his beloved girl. The events of the book are formed in such a way that he goes to the Eastern Front.
Military archeology
Excavations of Helmut Weisswald are undoubtedly interesting in historical terms. For him, this is not just archeology. He believes that the soldier goes into battle, and the people who are engaged in the search go to the forest, fulfilling their duty in this way. So archaeologists build their relationship with history by writing their names in its tablets. Each person who was buried under the mosses of the forests of the Leningrad Front during the years of the terrible war had his own thoughts and feelings, his own fate, which he had no power over, and unfulfilled hopes. About the life of the warriors of those distant times, their things tell. And they can be much more eloquent than living people, as if keeping their breath and echoes of their thoughts.
Each find is able to tell its amazing story, magically pushing the time frame, transferring modern people to that distant era when our grandfathers and great-grandfathers built their world and fought for their ideals.