Rybin, Y. Luftwaffe ace Walter Schuck researched / Christer Bergstrom, Yuriy Rybin. - Sweden : [s. l.], 2019. - 190 p. : ill.

WALTER SCHUCK 1/Lt Joseph Peterburs. I always carried a rosary with me and that confused them that this murderer of women and children (their impression of us) could be a Catholic. There was a crowed gathering outside and getting noisy and it was at this time the Luftwaffe sergeant decided we better take off. We got on his motorcycle and drove to an airfield. During the trip he told me the townspeople were so angry because a few days before a little girl about three years old had her head blown off by a strafing P-51. At the airfield I was put in solitary confinement and questioned for about three days by the Gestapo. Every night we had to go to the bomb shelter because of RAF night bombing raids. I felt very uncomfortable being in the shelter with the Germans all of whom looked at me like they could kill me. While at the airfield my Luftwaffe guard could speak a little English and I could speak a little German. We would communicate clandestinely and he gave me a lot of information about their activity at the airfield. However, his main concern was that I would vouch for him as treating me OK when the Americans came. I think that when I left I gave him a note to that effect. After three or four days I was taken to a railroad station where I was loaded on a boxcar for a trip to Stalag 11. While waiting to be loaded a German railroad man gave me a shot of Schnapps -wow! Upon arriving at Stalag 11 they were evacuating the prison camp because of advancing Allied forces. I stayed overnight and then was put with about 100 British soldiers and we started our way on foot toward the east. We were on the forced march for about ten days during which there were constant attacks by Allied fighters supporting advancing allied forces. I remember our German guards were really ticked off about our rations. We were eating from Red Cross packages and they had a loaf of brown bread and water. We would spend the night at German farms sleeping in barns and once in awhile we were able to scrounge an egg or two. German army vehicles were almost at a stop unable to manoeuvre because the roads were completely clogged by civilian refugees. It was complete pandemonium T