The account identifies Fischer as the tank crewman who helped move the burning Tiger and had previously served as the author's loader. His most striking act comes after an aerial bomb passes through four floors and lands unexploded in a bakery crowded with soldiers. While others flee and risk trampling one another, Fischer carries the bomb outside without knowing whether it is a dud or a time bomb. The episode captures both individual courage and the extreme hazards created when bombardment reaches a besieged strongpoint's food and shelter spaces.
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Fischer carries an unexploded bomb from the bakery
The memoir singles out a tank crewman who first helps save the Tiger and later carries an unexploded Soviet bomb out of the citadel bakery.