Why a woman writes down her father's war experiences

Having moved into the Wehrmacht, my father led the war to the Eastern Front. Three experiences shaped his attitude towards this war: by order he and many other fellow soldiers had to watch how people were executed by hanging them up. He never got rid of this horror again and accompanied my father very strongly during the war. As a member of the news soldiers he had to climb on a telephone line pole to repair the wires above. While he was upstair…

Unlike many former soldiers, Clemens Plattes from Kreuzau told his daughter about the war. She recorded the memories and travelled to the trenches in Russia.