He was sent into Russian internment along with Erich Hartmann at the end of the war and I had wanted to know his story. I could not find much, but what I did find was very enlightening. This book really put a face on the pilots which most U.S. produced war films portrayed as fanatical nuts who wanted nothing more than death to all. What the book showed was that these men had the same concern's as every other soldier - life, family and country. So, from high school on I have tried to read as much as I could about these Axis pilot's.
Biographies are rare, but their stories are out there.
Probably the final push to get this project going was this photograph. T he man on the left is Bazi Sterr, and the man on the right is Albin Wolf. The picture is from Leningrad, 1943. I don't know why, but this photo really affected me. Just two men trying to stay alive against overwhelming odds.