Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps vii
Maps xi
Introduction David L. Robbins xv
Author's Preface xvii
Publisher's Foreword xix
Part 1 1
1 Childhood in East Prussia 3
2 I Become a Soldier 7
3 My First Fifty-Two Successes as a Sniper 12
4 A Grim Vision of What to Expect: My Tally Rises to 130 Victims 30
5 Jastrzebiec, My Last Battlefield: Ninety-Eight More Victims 42
German Publisher's Note 58
Part 2 109
1 The End of the War: Escaping the Firing Squad 111
2 Helping the Lithuanian Resistance 117
3 Banished to Siberia 123
4 Labouring to Atone 128
5 Removal to Rudovka, April 1950 135
6 A Soviet Piggery: I am Recognised as a German Sniper 146
7 Soviet Bureaucracy in Action 152
8 Down the Pit: Sherenkov 1957-1971 155
9 I Keep Agitating for my Exit Visa 164
10 Released from Banishment But not the Soviet Empire 169
11 My German Nationality Restored 173
Index 175