Welcome Home From Soviet Prison Camp. Kurt Mandelsdorff being greeted by his 79-year-old grandmother Anna Schulze after he knocked at the door for her West Berlin home. The returned wears a heavily padded Russian jacket and carries a wooden case he made in captivity for his return home. 34-year-old Kurt Mangelsdorff, former corporal if Hitler's armed ***** returned home to West Berlin September 26, after spending almost nine years of his life behind barbed wire in Soviet Russia. October 6, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).