#BOOK REVIEW #I AM GERMANY BY MICHAEL WITT #WORLD WAR II HISTORICAL FICTION # KOEHLER BOOKS PUBLISHER
MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Michael Witt in his novel narrates I AM GERMANY to conjure his readers to deeply explore the historical events before World War 2 had started. An elderly man, half-Jew, and a widower, Heinrich Schultheiss returns to Germany after fifty years of living in America in 1936 with his parents. He had left Nazi Germany for Iowa shortly before the war at the age of sixteen. He comes back to the day the berlin wall fell and allowed him to travel freely between two Germany, West, and East Berlin without a special visa. As traveling in unified Germany he recollects that his childhood memories which are personal and a good part of his boyhood had been wiped off when Allied bombs pounded the monster out of Berlin in 1944 and 1945. There it was - except the Brandenburg Gate with the Greek Goddess of military victory - Victoria Gate. Every building, old store, and the house of chocolate vanished into thin air. He was horrified to see his childhood home Ede...