Von Luck makes very clear, too, that Rommel by late 1942 told him the war was lost and the best course for Germany was to sue for peace with the Western Allies, getting rid of Hitler, to unite against their true enemy, Stalin.

After Vitebsk, Luck was again assigned as commander of the Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion, after the previous commander was killed in action. The battery thus engaging the enemy, Luck spent the remainder of the day furiously trying to plug the gaps in his line. Pogotovo kratki intervjui sa nemačkim vojnicima iz Normandije, koje je autor radio 10 godina posle rata, mnogo realnije opisuju motivaciju tih vojnika.The flip side of this memoir, has been argued why this soldier didn't quit if he knew what Hitler and the Nazi's were doing. There was little antiaircraft artillery available, and the Luftwaffe had already retreated to air bases further west. Von Luck comes across as fundamentally decent, a gentleman, the kind of man who would make convivial company.

Oni kažu da su se borili "za ujedinjenu Evropu, protiv američkog i britanskog imperijalizma", i vidi se da su u to zaista verovali. Most of the Kampfgruppes armour had been destroyed in the heavy barrages earlier in the day, so it was left to a few scattered antitank and assault gun batteries to take on the advancing British tanks. In the beginning of July Luck's Kampfgruppe were further augmented with the arrival of Heavy Tank Battalion 503 equipped with Tiger I tanks. Luck's father, Otto von Luck, served in the Imperial German Navy and died during July 1918 of an influenza virus.On 23 October 1942 the lull was broken, as the British launched the attack of the Second Battle of El Alamein, and on 2 November General Montgomery broke through the German lines. Some might see this as self-serving apologia, that the Wehrmacht and cultured, educated men like von Luck were quite happy to go along with the Nazis, until the tide of war turned so disastrously against the Reich. Kasnije, kad sam počeo da se interesujem za istoriju, bilo mi je žao što ne mogu da razgovaram sa njim o njegovim vojničkim danima. A new threat was already emerging, with Patton threatening to create yet another pocket, south of the Seine River. He spoke annually for the British Staff college during their summer tours of the Normandy battlefields, and subsequently was asked to speak at a number of other military seminars.