 In 1944 he was drafted into the army; his unit being ordered to follow the retreating German allies, he arrived at Harbach, a small village in Germany, after a march of several weeks.Adrift in Germany, he witnessed several camps before he could return to Hungary after the end of the war, most notably the Ravensbrück concentration camp.What he saw in the camps was an experience he never forgot and later commemorated in a great number of poems, most notably, ("KZ oratory"), ("Passion of Ravensbrück"), , etc.