THE WINTER YEARS OF WORLD WAR II brings battles and living in the Third Reich to life. This war epic takes place on the German side. The reader experiences the war through German eyes, devastating, dramatic poignant,sad,hopeful, as well as hopeless. The story is based on the author’s family and is completely true, presented as a novel to bring this drama to its apex. I invite readers to comment, send their knowledge and research, experiences, or questions. This page is for you and me to exchange information about WW II AND INSIDE THE THIRD REICH.

After six years of digging in the most unlikely places, I have unearthed numerous historical events known by only a handful of historians: Goebbel’s favorite (and highly secret) bunker near Hitler’s bunker, where Luftwaffe women plotted air raids. Inside the most notorious Nazi political prison in Torgau. Walk inside Bretzenheim and Galgenberg, brutal American POW camps that to this day are kept out of the public eye. War in the Mediterannean to cut off shipping supplies to Rommel is the forgotten deadly battle. Troupe 500 during the last days in Russia, fighting without uniforms and weapons. The secret train of the Wehrmacht High Commandhid in the Bavarian forest. The first German prisoners in Russian captivity in Berlin facing execution. The last hours of Leipzig becomes one GI’s heroic hour. Gruesome tasks for Hitler Youth are difficult to believe today.

For myGerman Readers:
Dieses Buch ist in Englisch, aber hoffentlich kommt es auch nach Deutchland. Die Winter Jahre, im Zweiten Weltkrieg ist die Geschichte von einer Deutschen Familie im Krieg von Afrika nach Russland, Arnhem, Norwegen, Frankreich, Berlin, Chemnitz, Duesseldorf, Leipzig, Latvia, Italien, Mittelmehr. Wie die Familienmitglieder den Krieg ueberlebt haben, ist eine auserordentliche Geschichte.