The simple and powerful life of Maria Zeitner Linke from her childhood through her release from the Russian gulags is plainly and honestly conveyed in Ruth Hunt’s East Wind.
Mrs. Linke’s story opens in Germany in 1945, as the Russian army rolls into the shambles of Hitler’s fatherland. A Russian-born German, she finds herself an outcast in Germany and Russia as each government rejects her as a traitor or a spy. Captured by Russian soldiers and brutally raped, Mrs. Linke finds herself standing on the tailgate of an army truck, one end of a heavy rope tied around her neck, the other end lashed to the overhanging branches of a sturdy tree. Moments before her death, she remembers her broken promise to God, made as a young girl, to be a faithful witness to others of the truth and grace of God which she had experienced and received.
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