The Seventh Escape

Simple, amazing, heartwarming and full of nuggets about not giving up at anything you do.

This is a story about a very pleasant and gentle man, with an almost childlike faith in the goodness of divinity and in the innate decency of men.

Walter Logé owned nerves of steel, lightning fast wits, and an incredible determination to escape and somehow cover the many hundreds of miles across the reaches of the Ukraine and Poland westward to Berlin, where his beloved wife (my Oma) and 3 children awaited him if they were even still alive.

This is not just another war story, or merely another chapter in the long bitter story of a man's inhumanity to man. Neither is it told to work off a grudge. It is not simply a dreary chronicle of misery and brutality, nor is it written to remind us that war brings suffering to the innocent and arouses the worst of human passions, but the book is written to encourage, to hang in , not to give up... and in the end succeed.

It is a document of human freedom and brotherhood, it is a more than a book, it is twist and turn journey to follow my grandfather Walter Logé on his desperate, but at times humorous flight from degradation and slavery.
It is a heartwarming adventure of the human spirit.

Thank you (Opa ) for being a man who was always cheerful... I am here today because of your sacrifice and courage and on this occasion, what would be your 100th birthday on April 23, 2011.

You are missed and thought of often... I was only 7 or 8 when you told this story to Jan Doward, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

So in loving memory of a true hero, my hero and friend, I write this review.

Thank you, you will never be forgotten for what you did! Escaped 7 times and lived to tell about it.

This is a great book. It is about a German man who worked for the German Red Cross during World War II named Walter Loge'. Walter was captured by the Russians and taken deep into Russia to a prison camp to work, and live under very poor conditions. Walter was a Christian and after 7 escapes he made it back to Berlin to his family in 1945. Walter was kind to all along his path and learned to play the balalaika, a Russian instrument. He shared whatever food he had with the Russians or whoever he was with. After being reunited with his wife and children in Berlin in 1945, 8 years later he immigrated to the United States with his family. They live in the Unites States today.