Lost words of a German conscript (survivor of concentration camp)

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At least 50,000 people died in
Bergen-Belsen before liberation

Lost words of a German conscript
By Andrew Joynes
BBC News

The Igel file

On his final escapade he ran away from a unit on its way to the Russian front and went to ground in the Warsaw Ghetto.

He avoided being shot by feigning mental illness and was finally sent from hospital to a labour camp.

From there he was transported to Belsen in 1944.

He survived and in his old age became a campaigner for the moral principle that those who do not collaborate with a system of tyranny - those like himself, a serial deserter from the Wehrmacht - should be honoured.

It is a principle which is today as relevant as ever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4887702.stm


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