Petersson, I. Die Waldwölfe. Unter baltischen Freiheitskämpfern 1947 bis 1950

Few people know that for years after the end of the Second World War, freedom armies fought against the Soviet Union in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia). The narrative presented here takes the reader from occupied Germany in 1947 along various winding paths into the deep forests of Latvia, into the headquarters of the Baltic Freedom Army. We experience how, with the help of members of the former German Kurland Army, the sub-leaders of this freedom army are formed in hard training. We learn about the tremendous hardships that each of the forest wolves takes on and how each of them is prepared to give his life without hesitation for the freedom of his people.

Ingo Peterson's narrative talent again allows the reader to participate directly in all the events. He describes what one of his old comrades in arms actually experienced, lets him speak in first-person style and portrays the harshness of the battles just as vividly as the quieter tones that touch the heart, the gripping atmosphere of male comradeship just as much as the clarity of an unambiguous attitude, an intimate relationship to one's fellow man, to the native landscape and wildlife, all of this in rare harmony with one another. One cannot remain untouched by this portrayal, it inevitably sweeps one along. It is comforting and forward-looking to see how, in the face of collapse, decline and weakness of human character, both in the Germany of the time and in the West and East, among Americans, Poles and Russians, individual role models of human greatness and decency repeatedly stand out like signposts, showing the wavering person where he belongs and where his spiritual home is.