Martin Vogel, a veteran of World War II, spent more than 60 years seeking to find the truth behind his brother, Bernard Vogel's death at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. After reading an article on CNN.com about Anthony Acevedo, a World War II medic who mentioned a Vogel who died in his arms at the Nazi's Berga an der Elster slave camp.
Acevado confirmed rumors to Martin Vogel that his brother had attempted to escape from the camp with a fellow prisoner in early April 1945, though both were caught and forced to stand outside of the barracks for two to three days before collapsing from exhaustion. In a conference call arranged by CNN, Acevedo and another Berga camp survivor, Myron Swack, retold the complete story of Martin Vogel's brother Bernard, and how he eventually perished in Acevado's arms around April 9, 1945, only weeks before the war's end.
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