April 15, 1945

[There is no written entry for this date. But Frank Hauck and Louis Lee Sapienza took pictures of the aftermath of the atrocity at Gardelegen, where Nazis hearded 1016 political and military prisoners into a barn and ignited it. Frank, an American soldier of German descent, never spoke of the incident or the other brutalities Germany brought upon mankind in war. There is much available about Gardelegen on the Internet, but the photos and description may haunt you.]