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Austrian-German soldier (–)

Cornelius Rost (27 March , Kufstein, Austria – 18 October , Munich, Germany)^[1][2][3] was an Austrian drafted into the German army as a soldier in World War II who allegedly escaped from a Soviet Gulag camp in Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia. His supposed experiences were the basis for a book, a television series, and a film. Later research strongly indicates that Cornelius Rost's escape story is not true.^[4]

Life

Rost was born on 27 March in Kufstein, Tyrol, Austria. He was living in Munich when the Second World War broke out, and during the war, he was captured by the Soviet Army. By his own statement, made in , he held the rank of private, although Clemens Forell, his alias in his novel, was depicted as a Wehrmacht officer.^{[citation needed]}

According to the Munich registration office, Rost returned from war imprisonment in Russia on 28 October In , he started working in the in-hou