3. Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in
1939 when he and his family gathered behind the
curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish)
neighbors of their small town in western Poland greet
the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika
flags. Within days, the family home had been seized,
12-year-old Roman had become a slave of the local SS
chief, and, returning from an errand, he silently
witnessed his Jewish classmates being bayoneted to
death by soldiers at the edge of town. So began his
remarkable six-year journey through some of the
darkest caverns of Nazi Europe....