At the close of the book, he is sitting in a dugout overlooking the Mochetka Mokraya with wounded comrades who were not able to fall back to the tractor factory when so ordered. Holl stayed with them, thinking it was dishonerable to leave them helpless. He also describes his intention to offer resistance if the Red Army should undertake to mistreat any of the wounded. I'm guessing that Holl does not describe the events of going into captivity because it was really, really ugly. Is that lost to history? Or does someone know what happened...
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