The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered,
there is nothing he need fear any more—except his God.
1. An interesting incident with reference to this SS commander is in regard to the attitude toward him of some of his Jewish prisoners.
At the end of the war when the American troops liberated the prisoners from our camp,
three young Hungarian Jews hid this commander in the Bavarian woods.
Then they went to the commandant of the American Forces who was very eager to capture this SS commander
and they said they would tell him where he was but only under certain conditions:
the American commander must promise that absolutely no harm would come to this man.
After a while, the American officer finally promised these young Jews that the SS commander when taken into captivity would be kept safe from harm.
Not only did the American officer keep his promise but, as a matter of fact,
the former SS commander of this concentration camp was in a sense restored to his command,
for he supervised the collection of clothing among the nearby Bavarian villages,
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