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Crossing Frontiers - Couverture souple

Lemke, Helmut

 
9781438975627: Crossing Frontiers
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1438975627 ISBN 13 : 9781438975627
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2009

Synopsis

Crossing Frontiers is an autobiography. It starts with a short historical background of the author's home country, Germany, as it refers to his story. Growing up during the depression and under Hitler's National Socialists, he saw the Third Reich rise and fall. He relates interesting and humorous events from his school time, his training in the Hitler youth, labor force and military. In riveting details, he describes his war experiences, his return to his home in search of his mother. He points out the dangers he encountered living under Russian and Polish rule and later being expelled. He describes the situation in Germany after the war, illustrating it from his experience in refugee camps in East Germany, and his escape to West Germany. He compares university life in Germany, where he studied for his degree in architecture and the USA where he studied on a scholarship for a year. He narrates his adventures, hitchhiking through the United States, masterfully.His story ends with his decision to immigrate to Canada.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Crossing Frontiers is an autobiography. It starts with a short historical background of the author's home country, Germany, as it refers to his story. Growing up during the depression and under Hitler's National Socialists, he saw the Third Reich rise and fall. He relates interesting and humorous events from his school time, his training in the Hitler youth, labor force and military. In riveting details, he describes his war experiences, his return to his home in search of his mother. He points out the dangers he encountered living under Russian and Polish rule and later being expelled. He describes the situation in Germany after the war, illustrating it from his experience in refugee camps in East Germany, and his escape to West Germany. He compares university life in Germany, where he studied for his degree in architecture and the USA where he studied on a scholarship for a year. He narrates his adventures, hitchhiking through the United States, masterfully.His story ends with his decision to immigrate to Canada.

Biographie de l'auteur

Helmut Lemke was born in 1926 in West Prussia, Germany and attended a boarding school in the city of Marienburg. He served in the army on the eastern front during the last year of the war, was wounded and after his recovery searched for his mother in his homeland then occupied by the Russian army and under Polish rule. He lived as a refugee in East Germany, fled to West Germany and studied in the USA and in Braunschweig where he got his degree in architecture. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada, worked as an architect in Vancouver and later as German and art instructor. He married Hildegard and they had three children. Helmut and Hildegard were both active in youth work and congregational affairs in the Mennonite church. They spent one year in Bielefeld, Germany where Helmut taught in an art college. Now retired, he is volunteering as a director of the More Than a Roof Mennonite Housing Society." Both Helmut and Hildegard are involved in art - painting and sculpture - and like to travel.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438975627
ISBN 13 
9781438975627
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
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