He and a fellow soldier approached and, unable to force the door open, scratched at the frost on the bus windows. Verton saw what he thought would be his salvation: a German military bus slanted to one side of the road ahead.
L ost and near-freezing on his first night at the front, without shelter in a Russian December in 1941, Hendrik C. Believing his homeland to be a European backwater, Dutchman Hendrik Verton chose to don “the uniform of the enemy” because he was “willing to make a sacrifice for this fatherland, in the Europe of the future.” (Image: Bild Archiv Weltkreig)
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