The daughter of a young boy taken from his family at age 13 to join the Nazi war machine has translated his memoirs and ghostwritten her late father's memoir
Eighty years ago this month, some of the darkest hours of the Holocaust emerged as, on the day before Hitler’s birthday, German troops invaded the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and cruelly massacred and deported thousands of Jewish residents.
Her late father, who miraculously survived the war despite being wounded and captured by the Allies, was one of the myriad victims of World War II and Hitler’s insatiable aggression. He recorded 16 tapes. They were in German, and his daughter planned to translate them to share with family members ... but life intervened.
“History is a kaleidoscope of facets. You have to have all the pieces for a full understanding of all sides of the story — especially if you want to keep it from happening again.” Langbein-Allen titled her dad’s memoir, “Save the Last Bullet,” because German commanders had instructed their young recruits that, if captured, they were to shoot themselves rather than be taken prisoner.
Willi was relocated to Schleching near the border with Austria and Hungary. It was March 1945 and the Germans were fast losing ground, but the fresh-faced recruits had no inkling of this.anti-tank rocket launcher to take out as many tanks as he could while hiding in a foxhole directly in the path of the deadly machines.
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