Verlorene Ehre - Verratene Treue

As an eighteen-year-old, Herbert Maeger grows into World War II and experiences it as an inescapable fate. Without pathos and with great intensity, he describes the plight of hunger, the terrible Russian winter, the hopelessness of relentless battles, and the constant awareness of being threatened by death. The realization that a ruthless leadership turns soldiers into both executors and victims of a merciless extermination program heightens the despair. This unvarnished account from a witness of World War II is substantiated by the experiences and events described: I was there.