The carpenter's apprentice Richard Blaß, born in 1928 in
Lagerlechfeld, volunteers for military service in 1944.
After various postings in training camps, he is deployed
as a tank hunter near the Loibl Pass, where, after several
battles and the loss of numerous young comrades, he be-
comes a prisoner of war and is only able to return home
in October 1945, heavily scarred by the war.
He recorded his experiences at the front in a diary.