Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man - Taschenbuch

A 103-Year-Old Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Exposes the Darkest Chapter in History Seventy years after the imprisonment of Leopold Engleitner (born 1905) by the Nazis, author Bernhard Rammerstorfer narrates Engleitners remarkable life and Nazis atrocities during one of the dark epochs of world history in a poignant biography entitled Unbroken Will. Although Leopold Engleitner and Nazi fuehrer Adolf Hitler grew up in the same province (Upper Austria) and shared the same cultural background and education system, but the convictions and attitudes they developed were diametrically opposed. Whereas Adolf Hitler caused untold suffering to millions as a merciless mass murderer, Leopold Engleitner devoted his life to peace, refusing to buckle even in the face of death. Mr. Engleitner is often asked, Why would a man facing imprisonment and unspeakable suffering in a Nazi concentration camp, when given a choice, chose not to sign a document giving him his freedom? Instead he submitted to Nazi persecution, enduring imprisonment in Buchenwald, Niederhagen, and Ravensbruck concentration camps, rather than renouncing his faith as one of Jehovahs Witnesses. Driven by his convictions, he took a stand against the Nazis by refusing to serve in Hitlers army. As a result, he was brutally mistreated by the SS that imprisoned and tortured him in an attempt to break him. In the concentration camp, he even bought a suitcase for the seemingly impossible journey home. Weighing less than sixty-two pounds, he survived the camps only to be hunted down like an animal in his attempt to escape into the rugged Austrian Alps. Amazingly he still lives to tell his story, and today at age one hundred and three, he is the oldest known male concentration camp survivor. Suffering through the First World War, the Spanish Flu and then the rise and fall of Nazism, Engleitners story seemed to be lost to the pages of history until a chance meeting over half a century later with author and filmmaker Bernhard Rammerstorfer. This marked the beginning of a remarkable and extraordinary friendship. For more information on Unbroken Will, log on to wwwunbrokenwillcom