In his book, award-winning journalist and long-standing editor-in-chief of weekly magazine profil Herbert Lackner illustrates the upheaval of 1945—now 80 years in the past. Lackner vividly describes the last months before the end of World War II and before the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps; the shocking experiences of Soviet soldiers during the liberation of Auschwitz; the persecution of detainees who fled the Mauthausen concentration camp; the escape of high-echelon Nazis after the war had ended; the refuge “Alpine Fortress”… This is also Herbert Lackner’s most personal book: Based on diary entries of his parents, he narrates how young people experienced the last months of the war.
Book presentation with
Herbert Lackner
Long-standing Editor-in-Chief of weekly magazine profil
