Time for Taking Chances: Leaving Germany as a Teenager after the War

by Otto Schmalz

Time for Taking Chances: Leaving Germany as a Teenager after the War is an intimate account of a profound transition undertaken by a nineteen-year-old German boy immigrating to Canada in 1951 who saw no hope for his bombed-out country ever getting back on its feet. At the Canadian consulate in Hannover, in whose dramatic ruins he'd lived for six years after the Second World War, Otto Schmalz learned of the possibility for another chance.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1525567780
• ISBN13: 9781525567780
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"