EAN: 9783347770881

JEAN - MARTIN GROSS GEBUNDEN

In this book  Jean Gros tells his life story from his youth to his release from captivity as a
prisoner of war. He was born in 1922 as the child of German-Romanian settlers  under the name
Ioan Grosz  in the Romanian Banat. The family lives in the small village of Ivanda near the
city of Timisoara  where they run a small farm. In this environment  characterised by simple
living conditions  Ioan experiences a carefree and mostly happy childhood. This ends  however 
when he begins a butcher's apprenticeship in a neighbouring village. From now on  he has to
face the first hardships of life. However  this period of his life is still proceeding along
the usual lines for the time and the region. This all changes abruptly when the Third Reich
sets out to recruit new soldiers from the ranks of the Romanian Germans. Ioan also gets caught
up in the mills of the Nazi war machine  and like most of his compatriots  ends up in the
Waffen SS. As the book progresses  it describes his traumatic war experiences and the depriving
circumstances under which the missions are carried out. During his sorties he is also wounded
several times. Despite all adversity  he tries to maintain contact with his family and
childhood sweetheart  but this is not always successful  and the uncertainty about his family's
circumstances becomes his constant companion. The war ends for him with another wound and years
of imprisonment. The vivid description of the events takes the reader on a journey through
Jean's life  which is exemplary for that of many young Romanian-Germans of that era. The reader
also gets an impression of the way of life and the further fate of this ethnic community.

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