Herbert K. Perlich

Exit Bohemia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Adventures and brutal pranks in a small village in Czechoslovakia are told by the author from his naive youthful perspective, until the end of the Second World War bursts apart the life of the German speaking population.

In the period of Russian occupation in 1945, the Sudetenland Germans are expelled from their homes, never to return. His family, like many millions of refugees, then continue life in war ravaged Germany.

This personal account gives a glimpse both of an innocent time of Bohemian youth and of a horrific history repressed for decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvey Bugeye
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386382492
• Artikelnr.: 53476417

Autorenporträt

Herbert K. Perlich was over 85 when he finished writing Exit Bohemia. It was a personal story that he had often told in fragments over the years, but finally put all to paper. The story begins in 1931, at his birth, in the north of Czechoslovakia, an ethnic German enclave in what is now the Czech Republic. His adventures and involvement in brutal pranks in the village are increasingly overshadowed by the impact of war in Europe, described from a child's naive perspective. He lived through Nazi occupation as well as eventual liberation of the village by Russian forces. Yet, this is the start of a true terror for all local German inhabitants. They were expelled by Czech government decree, starved, murdered. But Herbert narrowly survived, only to struggle through the hunger years of life in postwar Germany. This period held more escapades and hard labour on farms and in factories.