Instead, he told Dorothee how he and the group of young officers who had gone through training together had appraised their military situation at the beginning of the invasion and came to the sober and simple conclusion that none of us would draw his head out of the noose and that our lives were now over … And now that not one of these lieutenants is still alive and all the Tigers are missing, I know that only my accident … saved me from what we expected.
