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Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, Detmar Heller was taken prisoner by the Russians, who took him to the North Caucasus. He remembers how one day German officers arrived at the camp from American captivity. Detmar Heller was full of admiration for the strong and good-looking men. But after a few weeks they too were weak and emaciated. In a conversation with one of the new arrivals, the then 18-year-old Heller unexpectedly learned something about the fate of his family.