#bruno sutkus
WehrmachtscharfschutzeBruno Sutkus in the Carpathians, 1944.
Of Lithuanian and German descent, he is credited with 209 confirmed kills and fought in the Lithuanian anti-communist resistance. Tortured by the KGB and sent to various collectives and prisons, he did not return to Lithuania until 1971. He relocated to Germany in 1997, and passed away in 2003.
From his “Diary of a Sniper”:
“If you can live legally, you’ll grow to be eighty years old. Joining the guerrillas, you will die. They will torture your parents and send them to Siberia. We can’t achieve anything because the Soviet predominance is crushing. We’re constantly hunted. We have no area for retreat, no supplies, and no food. Large Soviet forces are searching the woods. Often we are starving, and the wounded get no treatment. The people who support us are arrested, viciously tortured, and sent to Siberia. Sooner or later, the Soviets will choke the whole Lithuanian resistance in blood. We’re all going to die. They will throw our desecrated bodies into the marketplace. Reconnaissance planes are often flying over the woods to take pictures. Spies are infiltrating our ranks. Day and night we can’t feel safe in the bunkers and are therefore always moving, to, again and again, like rats, dig new bunkers in the soil. There’s no other way. One of us shall survive to be able to tell how we lived, fought, and died.”
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