Memories of a German boy

The Arndt family, threatended by the approaching Russians, left their German home in Konigsberg Prussia in January 1945. With her husband and eldest daughter at war, Helene Arndt and four of her children walked miles to the railway station in the freezing cold and started their journey west. Martin was the youngest. One month shy of his sixth birthday his young body endured the effects of war - hunger to the point of near starvation, death and si...