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A Dream of Democracy
A DREAM OF DEMOCRACY is a ten-year-old boy’s escape from the Russian invasion of East Prussia at the end of WWII in January 1945. With his mother and sister aboard his aunt’s horse-drawn wagon, they fled with thousands of refugees from the barbaric Red Army. Since Hitler and the German Army failed to evacuate or protect German civilians on the Eastern-Front, they ran for their lives on the wagon train west with Russians soldiers on their heals who were determined to seek revenge from Hitler’s previous invasion of Russia––pillaging as they went, raping women of all ages and killing the men and boys.
Helmut Bio Helmut Siewert, born in East Prussia in 1934 survived the Russian invasion at the end of WWII at the age of 10 by escaping on the wagon train to the east with his family. Forced to flee in the middle of the night, in sub-zero temperatures, his mother, aunt, younger sister and his 14 year-old cousin drove their horse-drawn wagon for 8 weeks and then found himself buried alive in a Berlin subway. This is the telling of his brave and dangerous journey.
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