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Title: Stoker: The Story of an Australian Soldier Who Survived Auschwitz-Birkenau by Donald Watt ISBN: 0-7318-0585-2 Publisher: Amer School Counseling Assn Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Summary: Fact or Fiction?
Comment: Don Watt is the typical Australian yarn spinner or story teller. The only problem is that Don Watt's book, "Stoker" has been totally discredited by historians and scholars worldwide. Mr Watt was an Australian soldier, captured in the early part of WW2 and was held in a variety of POW camps in Poland and Germany, of this there is no doubt.

However Mr Watt was never in Auschwitz, he never escaped and found his way to the Swiss border and he never shot a Russian soldier trying to rape a German Grandmother.

My doubts arose when I read Mr Watt's heroic shooting of a Russian soldier about to rape a German grandmother. This heroic action occurred a day or so after his release from the POW camp Fallingbostel near Hannover. Mr Watt claims that the Russian soldier was one of an advance party from the advancing Russian army in the east. Unfortunately, this is impossible, as the Russians met the American army a week later on the Elbe river,and never made it to Hannover, 200 Km further west.

I then investigated his story further and found many articles published that debunked his claims, especially his recollections of Auschwitz and the prisonors by Professor Konrad Kweit from Maquarie University. Other commentators have named him Rambo Watt in recognition of his amazing exploits.

Its a great read and we would all love to believe in Mr Watt, especially us Australians, unfortunately his imagination has let us down.