Word: einsiedel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...IRENE EINSIEDEL...
...Bismarck? Bismarck?" The interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a gun butt), and once was stood before a firing squad (but that was just a joke: after firing over his head, the Russians roared with laughter...
...third day his captors began an indoctrination in Communism. Von Einsiedel was not unwilling: he was only 21, had known nothing of politics but Hitlerism, and he was thoroughly disgusted with that. With very little urging, he agreed to write a letter telling his parents that he was all right and that he thought Hitler would lose the war. The Russians made it into a leaflet and dropped it over the German lines...
Between Two Fires. Von Einsiedel was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Moscow. There he found himself between two fires: the aimless cruelty of the Russians and the purposeful vindictiveness of some of his fellow Germans, who had heard about the leaflet and regarded von Einsiedel as a traitor. Wonderingly, not sure of his own motives, von Einsiedel felt himself pulled by the "magical attraction" of Communism's "well-knit, clear religion." He joined the small group of German officers, under Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, in the Russian-sponsored Committee for Free Germany...
...course of his work, von Einsiedel learned Russian, and traveled for thousands of miles in the Soviet Union. What he saw there, and at the "antifascist school" he attended for training as a revolutionary, slowly and painfully peeled the scales from his eyes...