HEIMAT
by Paul MarzellPublish: Oct 15, 2021Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Book Overview
Heimat is an epic story of four emigrants who left post-WWI Germany in 1929 for America, intending to return as successful American citizens to Neisse, their Heimat. Before they left Germany, their plans began to change in Berlin’s Bahnhof, where they saved the life of an American diplomat. Their heroism created a friendship with the diplomat and themselves that sustained them through misconceptions of the American dream, the Great Depression, assimilation into American culture, and WW II. However, the war severed contact with their families and sent them on separate paths. To a shipyard to build the means to carry destruction to Germany and their Heimat. Into the US Army to fight the Japanese in the Pacific after surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor. Conscription into Germany’s Wehrmacht to invade France and Russia and fight against Americans in the Battle of the Bulge. And to the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
