Steel Tracks and Silent Screams

An American in the Wehrmacht

Caught between two worlds. Forged in the fire of war. Haunted for a lifetime.

Jonathan Keller was just a teenager when his parents uprooted his life in America and moved the family to Nazi Germany in 1938. By 1941, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, finding himself behind the controls of a Tiger I tank—a steel fortress and a prison all at once. As war raged across Europe, Jonathan faced unrelenting battles, devastating loss, and moral dilemmas that would leave scars far deeper than those on the battlefield.

Told through an intimate interview decades after the war, Jonathan reflects on his journey from Stalingrad’s frozen ruins to the fiery chaos of Normandy and the desperate retreat to Berlin. Through it all, he wrestles with questions of survival, guilt, and whether redemption is ever truly possible.

Steel Tracks and Silent Screams is a haunting exploration of identity, loyalty, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit. It’s a story of camaraderie and loss, of impossible choices made in the heat of war, and of a man’s lifelong search for peace in the shadows of his past.

"Gripping, poignant, and unflinchingly real."

Step into the boots of a soldier trapped in a war not of his choosing and discover a side of World War II seldom told.

Will Jonathan ever find forgiveness—not from others, but from himself?