His mother's story: TV presenter Reinhold Beckmann reads from his novel in Wolfratshausen. On 352 pages, the third-born Reinhold has compiled the story of his mother Aenne Beckmann, née Haber, who was born in 1921 in the small village of Wellingholzhausen near Osnabrück.
Beckmann quotes from a total of 105 surviving field post letters from his fallen uncles Franz, Hans, Alfons and Willi to his mother.