Episode 2172: OTTO by Katherine V. Stevens - a podcast by Ric Bratton

OTTO: A GERMAN SOLDIER FROM THE TRENCHES OF WWI TO THE EISENSTAEDT TRIALS AT NUREMBERG by Katherine V. Stevens

Otto is a German farm lad who runs away to World War I at sixteen, is wounded before the end of the war, and believes in the very soil and soul of Germany. He follows the man who led him in trenches, into the brown shirts, and into the black garb of the Nazi SS, vowing to serve his country. He does what his country asks, following each command to the letter, and in the end, cannot understand why his country is on trial. He believes it is all a sham, another victor's punishment like the Treaty of Versailles, until he learns that priests were sent to camps and his world collapses around him, and then Otto himself is on trial.

Katherine V. Stevens is a poet, photographer, author, and retired high school teacher of English and history. She is also the facilitator of Brush Creek Writers in Hillman, Michigan. She has published a book of poetry, Dusting by Stars, and a previous historical novel, Tucks and Me. She earned a BS in English/history from the University of Dubuque and an MA in English at the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College. Katherine resides in Northern Michigan with her ninety-eight-year-young mother, who has permission to shovel snow.
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