Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather's city farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing first hand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm's family was deported from Silesia in 1948 to the USA. The 17-year-old ...
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Gerhardt B. Thamm grew up on his grandfather's city farm in Lower Silesia, the hinterlands of Germany. In early 1945 this land, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, became a battleground. The Soviets captured Lower Silesia in February, and Thamm, like many of his Hitler Youth high school classmates, was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II, experiencing first hand fearsome barbarity and atrocity. Thamm's family was deported from Silesia in 1948 to the USA. The 17-year-old Thamm joined the US army and served more than 20 years as an enlisted man. This is his biography.
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