Mark of Shame Author:Willi Heinrich A ruthlessly outspoken novel of shattered Germany, its returning heroes and faithless women, tainted with the ashes of defeat and branded with the "Mark of Shame." — Hergett Bucholz, hard-bitten, cynical soldier, veteran of the long German campaigns, returns from seven years in a Russian concentration camp to the New Germany. A living anachronis... more »m, he plunges into the new society---a seething cauldron of blackmail and self-debasement, made more garish by the frantic , sterile sex of beautiful women who never unlearned the Nazi lesson...« less