The extraordinary and little-known story of American GIs taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge and forced into unspeakable slavery in the Nazi concentration camp at Berga When thousands of American soldiers were captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, most were marched off to prisoner-of-war camps where they were relatively well-treated. A few hundred others, mainly Jewish, were marched off to the Nazi slave-labor camp at Berga-ander-Elster, where many met an unspeakable fate. This is their story. For over three months, the soldiers worked under brutal, inhuman conditions, building tunnels in a mountainside for the German munitions industry. Many of them died. The others struggled to survive in a living nightmare. Strangely, when the war was over, many of the Americans who had survived Berga were required to sign a 'security certificate' which forbade them from ever disclosing the details of their imprisonment at Berga. Until recent years, what had happened to the American soldiers at Berga has been a closely guarded secret.
- ISBN10 078673664X
- ISBN13 9780786736645
- Publish Date 13 April 2009 (first published 29 March 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 304
- Language English