Wolfram, The Boy who went to War

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Wolfram tells the story of Hitler's Germany through German eyes and how a young man's world was turned upside down by the megalomaniac ambitions of the Fuhrer.Born in 1924, Wolfram Aichele's entire childhood was lived under the shadow of Hitler. At first his family home on a hilltop village managed to escape the majority of the intense regime and they therefore clung to free-thinking, artistic lives that were unfettered to the Nazi party. But on his eighteenth birthday in 1942 Wolfram was conscripted to a war he did not believe in and sent to the Russian Front from where few returned. For Wolfram, who wanted nothing more than to be left alone with his studies, the war swept him and his family into some of the greatest events of the Second World War from the D Day landings to the firestorms of Allied bombings.Drawn from family letters, diaries and interviews with Wolfram and his contemporaries, Wolfram is an intimate portrait of a family forced to make desperate compromises as it sought to survive one of the most brutal regimes in history.