The Journey of Marcel Grob

June 1944. Marcel Grob, an 18-year-old Alsatian, is yanked from his village and forced into the Waffen-SS — one of the 10,000 “Malgré-nous” conscripts drafted from France’s border provinces. Built on the true testimony of a single survivor, the book retraces how these teenagers were seized, uniformed, and sent to fight for a regime they never chose. Collin and Goethals follow Marcel from the day of his roundup through the brutal training grounds and battlefields that swallowed his youth, laying bare the impossible choices and moral gray zones of a stolen generation.

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