The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz

About the Book

“The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz” is a biographical journal of the first half of German history in the Twentieth Century as observed by a German family.

Coming out of the first world war, Germans tried to understand their lives apart from a ruling imperial family, adjusting to democracy under the Weimar Republic. Before they understood this new society, they found themselves ensnared by a totally new political system.

Freedom for Germany and Europe came at a ghastly price of death and destruction, when the rest of the world helped to throw off the yoke of the Hakenkreuz.

About the Author

Ingrid Cowan was born in Berlin, Germany, on June 19, 1927. She left Germany in November 1958 and became a U. S. citizen on May 1, 1963. Her work life was varied and often depended on her husband being transferred to different places. Cowan worked as a journalist for two different newspapers and as a reporter for TV in Mississippi. She was a legal secretary. Two years ago, Ingrid Cowan published her first book, “The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz” her biography of life as a child and teenager during the Hitler years in Berlin, Germany.