Eighteen

Karl Helmut Mueller loved one person in his entire life and it was Gertie Guthmann, the beautiful Jewish girl next door, in a time when contact between Aryans and Jews were forbidden. When Gertie was brutally attacked by three drunken SS officers, Karl swore revenge. Although his first revenge attack misfired, SS Colonel Hinnich, Karlâs first target was so impressed by the young manâs bravery, that he takes Karl under his wings and by doing so, he unleashes Karlâs inner demons that not only seek further revenge for Gertieâs rape and murder, but in the process Karl becomes a symbol of any German who was blinded by opportunities to climb the social and political ladder during the Third Reich. Karlâs bloody journey takes him to Dachau, Babi Jar, Warsaw, Argentina and finally the United States.