Used Book – Memories of Flesh and Pain: The Penguérec Gouesnou massacre - August 7, 1944, Florent Calvez, Dimitri Poupon, Kris

Kiel, Germany. In a city bar, Hanna meets Tiago. The two young people quickly bond when they discover that Hanna's great-grandfather, a former German soldier nicknamed "Wolfie," was stationed during World War II in Gouesnou, a small town in Finistère, where Tiago is from. Hanna knows that Wolfie experienced a tragedy there during the summer of 1944. But what exactly happened in Penguérec, a place name that still resonates with horror 80 years later? Embarking on the winding paths of memory and buried recollections, the two young people will follow the traces left by the victims of that terrible summer of '44, but also the itinerary of an ordinary tormentor. At the heart of their investigation lies all the flesh and pain that humanity experienced, and sometimes inflicted, on August 7, 1944, in a small, quiet town in northern Finistère...