Memories of World War II covers the first nineteen years of Inge Stanneck Gross' remarkable life. In this first-hand account, Inge manages to transform herself back to those days of horror and fear combined with the innocence of a child growing up in Hitler’s Germany.

Her father fought in the German army and was one of only a handful of German soldiers who survived after being taken prisoner by the Russians at Stalingrad. Her mother disregarded government regulations and fled for safety with her two children to the village of Straupitz, about fifty miles southeast of Berlin.

Overrun in Straupitz by the Russians, they barely managed to return to West Berlin eighteen months after the war ended. There they faced three years of terrible winters, starvation, and the Berlin Blockade.

Inge tells her story as she remembers it. You will feel what it was like to live through the Soviet blockade of Berlin, and then the years afterward as Berlin gradually recovers. The book ends as Inge leaves Berlin on the start of the greatest adventure of her life as an immigrant to America.

But that's another story, told in Volume Two.

Foreword End of Childhood Innocence Our Turn Would Come Nazi Checks Pretty Heavy Stuff The Russians Arrive Peace Russian Occupation Zone Can We Return to Berlin? Surviving the Coldest Winter CARE Package Berlin's Lifelines are Cut Life During the Blockade The Berlin Candy Bomber