tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post113509580869908147..comments2024-03-28T13:18:28.238+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Pamela Howe Taylor: The Germans We TrustedMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1135255570875693522005-12-22T12:46:00.000+00:002005-12-22T12:46:00.000+00:00I once had a beautiful neighbour.Her father was a ...I once had a beautiful neighbour.<BR/>Her father was a German POW from WWI.<BR/>He loved the country; he loved how he was treated.<BR/>He applied to emigrate and got his family out before Hitler.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1135216346941850922005-12-22T01:52:00.000+00:002005-12-22T01:52:00.000+00:00re Pamela Howe Taylor.The book strikes a chord in ...re Pamela Howe Taylor.<BR/>The book strikes a chord in me.<BR/>I was in London as a kid just after the war and was surprised to find so many German-speakers. My family had come out of a different kind of camp in Germany where they housed displaced persons there following a pretty serious European misunderstanding.<BR/>The Germans in London wanted to know all about Bonn-Rheinland where we had been interred and I could feel the nostalgia for castles and riverboats.<BR/>I did write a novel about my family's actual wartime experience, <BR/>"The Black Icon", but that's another story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com