'Sniper Ace'
An excerpt from the extraordinary autobiography of Bruno Sutkus, describing life on the front line of a Grenadier regiment - even before he began work as an independent sniper
Bruno Sutkus was born in Eastern Prussia, close to the Lithuanian border, to Lithuanian parents in 1924. It was to prove to be a problematic background, as he was neither fully German nor fully Lithuanian. The Germans were not fussy about citizenship in 1943 - he became a naturalised German and was conscripted into the Wehrmac…
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