Brothers at War: Unique Perspective on WW II

INSIDE THE WAR MACHINE

As a boy raised in Hamburg, Germany, after World War I, Werner Gramckow cared about only two things: soccer and going to America. His brother, Hans, moved there ten years before the start of World War II and became an intelligence officer in the US Army. Later, when Werner was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the brothers ended up fighting on opposite sides.

As a reluctant soldier in Hitler’s army, Werner endured both the horrors and the absurdity of war, including:

• The ins...