Truth Be Told

Rex Barton served in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Boat Patrol Commander, and this account is his own first-hand record of the events he witnessed. He was the first to reach the scene on the day Hermann Dobler and Elke Martens were shot.

Barton sets out the historical period in which these events took place and describes his years in uniform. He then walks through the day as it unfolded and the large-scale military buildup that followed.

The book also looks at the deceptions and falsehoods that grew up around the case, which the author says reach into the highest levels of authority. Readers are left to weigh what was being concealed and what actually happened.