The Berlin Diary 1945

[i.spring]

Hi Gerdan.

This is the type of info and feedback I wanted
I will have a look tomorrow If I can find the name.

I love this type of real history.
Ian

[D_Dutch]

Hi Gerdan.

This is the type of info and feedback I wanted
I will have a look tomorrow If I can find the name.

I love this type of real history.
Ian

Wouldn't his name be Otto Enke?
Since that is the name that is on the cover of the diary...
Just a guess.

With kind regards,

Koen.

Edit: Seen that that isn't possible.

[Gerdan]

Koen

as you finally recognized Otto Enke was a fomous Cottbus printing house. They produced/printed the calender.


Gerdan

[AUSGANG]

This is really exciting! I hope it gets translated!

[VtwinVince]

Very interesting diary. I just finished translating my grandfather's account of the capture of Koenigsberg and his subsequent imprisonment in a Soviet death camp.

[i.spring]

Hay that sounds really interesting.
If you have it typed, you could add it here. I would love to read it !

Ian

[i.spring]

Todays UPDATE to the Diary.
Enjoy.
Ian

diary page 17 and 18

[i.spring]

diary page 19 and 20

[i.spring]

diary page 20 and 21

[i.spring]

diary page 21 and 22

[i.spring]

diary page 24 and 25

[Eric JB]

Very interesting diary. I just finished translating my grandfather's account of the capture of Koenigsberg and his subsequent imprisonment in a Soviet death camp.

Soviet death camp ? How did he survive it ? Did the Soviets let him go from that death camp ?

I know that the Nazi death camps were liberated by the allies, and that that liberation was the main reason that there were camp survivors at all.

[i.spring]

Hi guys. Can any of the german members here, give me some idea of whats going on in the new pages.

And information is warmly welcomed !

Thanks.
Ian

[VtwinVince]

Hi Eric-Jan,

It is a long story, but he was sent to three camps, including the notorious Lager Stablack, near Preussisch Eylau, where recently mass graves containing tens of thousands of corpses have been found. The descriptions of the events which happened to my grandfather after he surrendered with the garrison at General Lasch's HQ defy belief, and describe in minute detail the outright brutality and sadism of the Soviets. I can only confirm one other survivor from the group which was sent with my grandfather to Stablack. I also think it is high time for some recognition for the victims of Allied war crimes committed towards the end of and after the last war, instead of constantly hearing about the Jewish holocaust.

[Eric JB]

Interesting story !

Yes remembrance is often too one sighted.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan