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Almost three hundred years ago, the first colonists who were to settle Transylvania set sail on rafts from hungry Germany on the Danube. Two centuries later, one of their descendants is drafted into the SS Division Galicia and sent into the crucible of World War II, because his ethnicity and Hitler demanded it. He was destined to become the killer of Eastern Europe or to die himself, but fate decreed otherwise.

It would seem that such a stunning plot can only be found in novels, but what is most striking is that this book is based on real events. And for the author, it is also a family story, as he tells about his father. It is for this sincerity and the philosophical sound of the adventure story that the ethnic German and Croatian writer Slobodan Schneider has won all the major literary awards of his homeland.