No New Day Tomorrow

With Soviet troops advancing in April 1945, Germany’s population was in a panic. A rising torrent of refugees poured westward through the German provinces, fleeing before the Soviet steamroller.

The Russians felt the time had come to seize and smash Berlin, the last lair of the fascist beast. Everyone in Germany knew that the hour of retribution had struck, including Franz Kabel, who was living with his father and mother on their stud farm near the village of Neubeck on the Berlin-Hamburg h...