German search for WWII missing nears end

MUNICH, Germany - Diethild Heubel pulls a precious document from a binder: a yellowed decades-old letter, neatly handwritten by her father, a German soldier taken prisoner at the end of World War II.

"This is his last proof of life, the last time he wrote to us," the 83-year-old said in an interview in her apartment in the Bavarian town of Noerdlingen.

Her father Gerhard Stuerzebecher was a soldier in Adolf Hitler's army, the Wehrmacht. In 1945, he was interned in Austria in a Soviet prison camp.