Diary From a German Officer’s “House of Memories”

About the Book

The House of Memories is a fictional story of what might have been. A WWII German officer disillusioned with the war and the useless deaths of multitudes of men . . . and citizens, both his and Germany’s “enemies,” emigrate to the United States and meets his male cousin for the first time. His cousin sells him his homestead in Door County, Wisconsin, where a wonderful life is lived out.

About the Author

I was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin. After graduating from High School I served three years in the Army Air Corps, going through Cadet training , followed by Primary, Basic and Advanced Flight training in the Southeast Training Command. Then onto training as a B-24 Bomber pilot. The WW2 war ended as my crew and I were to fly across the Pacific in the war against Japan’, when two atomic bombs dropped on Japan ended the war. After returning home, I attended and graduated from the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee under the G.I. Bill of Rights. I served my working career first, as an artist and my last twenty-one years as a Product Designer at the S.C. Johnson Company in Racine. My interest in writing came from my love of literature, and from winning a prize in High School for writing the best short story in my High School English class in my senior year, which has influenced me into trying my hand at writing, once again, in my Senior Retirement Years. I have to date written five books and have three other books under-way, two Novels and another book of Short Stories. I find writing stories based on a lifetime of experiences and observing the life around me fascinating. All-in-all I am just an average American man interested in the lives of those around me, which influences me in the stories I write.