Testimony of Justus Michael Dolgoruki Schacht, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Breslau, in service in the German Army and in Munich and other places

Testimony of Justus Michael Dolgoruki Schacht, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Breslau, in service in the German Army and in Munich and other places His childhood in Berlin with a Jewish mother and Catholic father; his parents divorce; move with his mother and younger brother to his mother's parents in Breslau; life with his grandfather and grandmother until 1937; Nazi rise to power, 1933; acts of harassment in the school; move to his father in Berlin; help by his father to obtain documents and a place of livelihood with an anti-Nazi, religious farmer; life with the farmer until 1939. Outbreak of the war; enlists in the German Army on his father's advice; service in the artillery of the Navy in various port cities in Germany, without raising any suspicion; release from the military after he announces that his mother is Jewish, early 1943; life in Berlin as a Christian; detention for buying in the black market; transfer to the prison in Munich; life in Munich until the air-raids; escape; life until the end of the war. Detention by the US Army; life in POW camps in Germany until 1948; life in Germany.