Memorial Wolfgang Borchert

Wolfgang Borchert was drafted in 1941. In 1942 he contracted diphtheria and ended up in the lazaret with war wounds. His liver was affected and a full recovery was out of the question. Borchert repeatedly came into conflict with the army leadership: he was suspected of insubordination in the letters he wrote, and was therefore imprisoned in Nuremberg. He was released on the condition that he would again go to the front in the east. During the campaign, he suffered hypothermia and subsequently contracted jaundice, so that he again ended up in the field hospital in Smolensk. He was again put on trial in 1944, this time in Berlin, and was sentenced to nine months in prison and sent to the front sick to death. In 1945, his regiment capitulated to the French in Frankfurt am Main, and he ran away to Hamburg. In 1946 he contracted tuberculosis in addition to a liver disease. He left in 1947 for a spa in Basel, Switzerland, where he died in November of that year.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman
• Wolfgang Borchert - Wikipedia