The Boy Who Went to War (32 page)

Wolfram and his fellow prisoners were obliged to watch a film showing Allied forces liberating an extermination camp. They were deeply shaken by what they saw.

 

Pforzheim, 1945. The historic town centre was obliterated by RAF incendiary bombs on the evening of 23 February. Among the 17,000 dead were many acquaintances of the Aïcheles.

 

Wolfram returned to his studies in Oberammergau in 1946. His sculpture of Christ on a donkey was carved for the parish church of St Peter and St Paul. It remains there to this day.

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ISBN: 978-1-4299-9058-5

First published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company