Saviors of Buchenwald: The Greatest courage is not always seen in battle
Screenplay by Michael Droberg
Story and research by Colin Heaton
Artwork by Tonmoy Rana
The shocking true story of two German Luftwaffe officers who risked everything in a race against time to save 164 Allied airmen from SS execution.
In October 1944 German Luftwaffe Colonel Hannes Trautloft stumbled upon a secret camp. Learning that it was Buchenwald, a SS operated concentration camp, and that killings were occurring he was appalled. When he learned that 164 Allied aircrew were being held awaiting execution in violation of the Geneva Conventions, he acted.
This is the amazing true story of a group of German air force officers who risked their lives in a race against time to save these airmen from certain death. Working rapidly and quietly to thwart Heinrich Himmler's plans, they orchestrated the evacuation of those survivors to Luftwaffe operated POW camps.
Told from the German perspective, this WW II thriller combines inhumanity, compassion, honor and humanism at a time when history was at its darkest.
