Save Me Twice

Karl and his family are navigating WWII the best that they can. As the war rages in Germany, they are finding shortages everywhere, and the world they knew turned upside down. As Hitler and the Nazi party push the war to greater heights, the people of Germany are told they must do whatever is necessary to win, even if that means signing up young teens as soldiers.
When Karl and his brother Hans are taken to become part of the SS, they are not sure if either of them will see home again. For a while they manage to stay together, but after their surrender, they are separated. Hans heads off to unknown territory, and Karl must use his wits to stay alive.
After he and a friend manage to elude their Russian captors, they work their way back toward their last location, and then start working toward the town that a farmers wife told them about. As they surrender to the Americans, little do they realize that they are about to witness the full horror of what the war in Germany has wrought, and the many horrific stories that they are about to encounter is only the beginning..


This was an interesting story. It really took me a bit to get into the book, and I had to put it down, and come back to it at another time. Eye opening and well done.