A 103-Year-Old Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Exposes the Darkest Chapter in History Seventy years after the imprisonment of Leopold Engleitner (born 1905) by the Nazis; author Bernhard Rammerstorfer narrates Engleitners remarkable life and Nazis atrocities during one of the dark epochs of world history in a poignant biography entitled Unbroken Will. Although Leopold Engleitner and Nazi fuehrer Adolf Hitler grew up in the same province (Upper Austria) and shared the same cultural background and education system; but the convictions and attitudes they developed were diametrically opposed. Whereas Adolf Hitler caused untold suffering to millions as a merciless mass murderer; Leopold Engleitner devoted his life to peace; refusing to buckle even in the face of death. Mr. Engleitner is often asked; Why would a man facing imprisonment and unspeakable suffering in a Nazi concentration camp; when given a choice; chose not to sign a document giving him his freedom? Instead he submitted to Nazi persecution; enduring imprisonment in Buchenwald; Niederhagen; and Ravensbruck concentration camps; rather than renouncing his faith as one of Jehovahs Witnesses. Driven by his convictions; he took a stand against the Nazis by refusing to serve in Hitlers army. As a result; he was brutally mistreated by the SS that imprisoned and tortured him in an attempt to break him. In the concentration camp; he even bought a suitcase for the seemingly impossible journey home. Weighing less than sixty-two pounds; he survived the camps only to be hunted down like an animal in his attempt to escape into the rugged Austrian Alps. Amazingly he still lives to tell his story; and today at age one hundred and three; he is the oldest known male concentration camp survivor. Suffering through the First World War; the Spanish Flu and then the rise and fall of Nazism; Engleitners story seemed to be lost to the pages of history until a chance meeting over half a century later with author and filmmaker Bernhard Rammerstorfer. This marked the beginning of a remarkable and extraordinary friendship. For more information on Unbroken Will; log on to wwwunbrokenwillcom
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