Willi Heinrich

Willi Heinrich
Born	1920 Heidelberg, Weimar Republic
Died	2005 Dobel, Germany
Occupation	Soldier writer
Signature
Military career
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Branch	German Army
Years of service	1938–1945
Unit	101st Jäger Division
Battles/wars	Second World War Occupation of Czechoslovakia Eastern Front

Willi Heinrich (9 August 1920 – 2005) was a German author and soldier. During the Second World War he fought in the 101st Jäger Division, which suffered massive losses on the Eastern Front, and his combat experiences inspired his first successful novel, Das geduldige Fleisch (1955), published in English translation as The Willing Flesh in the United Kingdom and as The Cross of Iron in the United States (1956).^[1] He later wrote a series of popular genre novels and potboilers in the 1970s and 1980s.