We shouldn't use this site for advertising and I don't intend to. However....
I have just discovered that one of my colleagues on the Governing Board of the Pensioners, a charming and erudite German I know very well, has published a book about his early experiences as a child during the last days of WW2 and having a father opposed to the Nazis; his imprisonment as a young man for six years by the authorities of the DDR, his escape to the West and subsequent career. The book is now available in English and richly illustrated with photographs, letters and documents. The book covers a period that is rapidly being forgotten but should not be. I've read the first chapters and it is absolutely not-put-down riveting.
As I said, I'm not going to incur Alison's ire by using this site for commercial purposes, but anyone interested in buying this paperback from Amazon can PM me mentioning "The Telegram to Stalin" by Jochen Erler.
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