6/3/2023 0 Comments I Remember...A Memoir of Nazi Invasion Forced Exile and Conce... by Lorissa Wilfong Holt![]() ![]() ![]() When the hour of execution came, and executions were ongoing, they went to the scaffold with their heads held high. They never wept or complained, never asked for anything. “What struck me most about political instructors and Communist Party members was their inherent dignity and unmistakable signs of education,” wrote German serviceman Heinrich Metelman in his memoir Through Hell for Hitler: “I never, or practically never, saw them in a state of despair. “Among the prisoners of war were snakes and scoundrels who, for a cigarette end, a plate of swede soup and a piece of bread, gave away political instructors, commissars and Jews without such traitors, the Gestapo would never have been able to identify them in the camp,” recalled Mikhail Temkin, who went through ten such concentration camps. Lorissa Wilfong Holt (Author of I Remember.A Memoir of Nazi Invasion Forced Exile and Concentration Camp) Discover new books on Goodreads See if your friends have read any of Lorissa Wilfong Holt's books Join Goodreads Lorissa Wilfong Holt’s Followers None yet. Additional checks were carried out at prisoner-of-war (POW) camps to ensure that none had slipped through the net. When captured, political workers were separated from other soldiers and, after interrogation (sometimes without), executed on the spot. ![]()
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