100-year-old eyewitness recounts World War II

100-year-old eyewitness recounts World War II. This 100-year-old eyewitness was born in 1925. At the age of 18, he was drafted in 1943. On the Eastern Front, the 100-year-old eyewitness was seriously wounded at the time. Today, the 100-year-old tells us how he survived his time in the military hospital in Königsberg and was then able to flee Königsberg in April 1945. In addition, the 100-year-old eyewitness reports how he experienced the end of the war and how he went on to rebuild his life afterwards.

Disclaimer: This interview, conducted as part of our peace project, serves exclusively for historical documentation and for learning from history. The content reflects personal memories and is placed in a contemporary historical context. I expressly distance myself from any form of glorification of National Socialist ideologies, from relativising or denying the Holocaust, and from other extremist views.