Contents

Cover Page

About the Book

Title Page

Part I

FOUR DAYS IN DEMMIN

River Without Bridges

War Without Limits

The Eyes of the Enemy

Tower of Darkness

The Ghosts of Demmin

Part II

DEMMIN IS EVERYWHERE

A Voice from the Bombed-out Temple

A Wave Rolling over the Reich

The Teacher and His Wife

Hell Machine

Death in the West

The Waxworks of Leipzig

City Without Hope

The Dark Figure

Part III

TUMULTUOUS EMOTIONS

The Wound That Was Germany

Hungry and Fanatical

Torches in Winter, Violets in March

Part of Something Greater

An Inner Rift

The Happy Years

In Love with the Führer

The Smell of Fear

Victors

A Sense of Foreboding

The Shadow of Others

Frozen Soul

Part IV

THE PULL OF SILENCE

Curtaining off Reality

An Inability to Feel

Victims

Ghosts of the Forgotten

Notes

Sources and Bibliography

Illustrations

About the Author

Copyright Page