No Ordinary Neighbour: Conversations With One of the Last Surviving Veterans of Hitler’s SS

There was seemingly nothing unusual about his new neighbour when the author, Reverend Bruce Thompson, met him for the first time.A Christian minister who has spent much of his life in Holocaust education, Reverend Thompson had little idea of what would be revealed in the years ahead. It turned out for his eighty years in the UK, this generous, affable, and kindly neighbour had managed to keep secret the truth behind his wartime service.He eventually became willing to share the reality with just one person: Reverend Thompson. No Ordinary Neighbour is the record of a growing relationship that led to an astonishing confession.Through a developing and deepening relationship, over the last decades of his life, Soldat X slowly disclosed his true identity in a protracted confession to the writer.He was, it transpires, one of the last surviving members of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler. This is a story of guilt, regret, shame, anger, confusion, and a deep desire for others to hear of the ea