Beyond Defeat Author:Hans Werner Richter Without warning they swarmed into the darkened barracks, like black ghosts of the hated SS gangs, looking for one helpless man. Under the very noses of their captors, these fanatical Nazi prisoners meted out their insane and savage justice to all comrades who had opposed Der Fuehrer...and the war. Even in an American prison camp, a German soldie... more »r like Guhler was not safe from the Gestapo. Yet no one dared speak out. For the Hitler myth still held its terrible power. Beyond Defeat is the chilling and bitter tale of a young anti-Nazi who was captured by the Americans at Cassino. The dramatic revelations of his battle experiences and his treatment in a United States prisoner-of-war camp will shock you.« less