Útěk před šílenstvím války - Dramatické osudy posledních žijících vojaků druhé světové války – Förg Klaus G. (2023)

Klaus G. Förg spoke with many people who either directly or indirectly fought in World War II. The fates of soldiers who witnessed this terrible conflict will not only take the readers' breath away but will literally draw them into the course of wartime events. Heinz Polke served as a personal driver for a lieutenant during the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, which the Nazis brutally suppressed. His description of the scene when he and the lieutenant arrived at a Warsaw square is depressing and simultaneously reveals the horrors of war. Michael Strasser managed to obtain incredible photographs smuggled from Russian captivity for his narrative during his long and arduous journey through Russian prisoner-of-war camps. Josef Hamberger traveled alone across the endless plains of Russia and found himself in very dire situations several times, but each time he was saved by his guardian angel, as he admitted several times in his story. Erich Menzel worked as a radar specialist on the famous submarine U 234 and ended up in American captivity after the German surrender, the conditions of which were incomparable to those of the Soviet one. ***** During our conversations, they told me with incredible openness about what they experienced, what they thought at the time, and what they felt. Some of them during our...