GERHARD EHLERT was one of the few survivors of the Luftwaffe’s 2nd Long-Range Reconnaissance Group, part of the 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Captured in June 1944, he did not return to Germany until 1949. When he related his story to Christian Huber, Ehlert was in his 90s, by then a happy father and grandfather, and undoubtedly a survivor.