I really have been lucky [WW2]

The following account comes from the infamous mercenary Siegfried "Kongo-Müller" Müller, at the time when he was still serving in the German army: >In 1945 the war ended for me. I have been at the Eastern Front to the very end, and had the luck that I have been one of the last wounded to make it out of Eastern Prussia, and to arrive in Frankfurt just as the Americans took it over. So I have been unimaginably lucky. [...] I really have been lucky. I had been unconscious for weeks, I had been paralyzed by shot lodged into my spine, but I have been very lucky despite, or rather exactly because of that, because that ensured that I had to be translocated into the West. --- **Source:** Der Lachende Mann: Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man: Confessions of a Murderer). DEFA, German Democratic Republic, 1966. --- **Further Reading:** - [Siegfried "Kongo-Müller" Müller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_M%C3%BCller_(mercenary\)) - [The Laughing Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_lachende_Mann_%E2%80%93_Bekenntnisse_eines_M%C3%B6rders)