 Henry Metelmann

Henry Friedrich Carl Metelmann (25 December 1922 – 24 July 2011) was a German soldier, peace activist and writer who was best known for a book about his experiences growing up in Nazi Germany and in World War II entitled "Through Hell for Hitler".Metelmann was an only child born in Altona (now part of Hamburg) where his father was a railway worker and socialist and his mother a committed Christian.