While young Manny Kaiter will mature to become the man who marries Buddy Holley's sister, in this volume, he faces more threats to his life. He and older brother, Siegie, play with explosives and loaded wartime weapons. They face incredible dangers, including the feared rape of his mother. He tries to grow up normally in the aftermath of war torn Germany. His efforts culminate, at age 16, in an attempt to flee the East German Communist menace in a boat cobbled together by his father by crossing the Baltic Sea to Sweden.
Chapter 1
Things were pretty dreary after Gunther left. Since we weren't on the road running from the Russians and the SS, Siege and I bad ...
While young Manny Kaiter will mature to become the man who marries Buddy Holley's sister, in this volume, he faces more threats to his life. He and older brother, Siegie, play with explosives and loaded wartime weapons. They face incredible dangers, including the feared rape of his mother. He tries to grow up normally in the aftermath of war torn Germany. His efforts culminate, at age 16, in an attempt to flee the East German Communist menace in a boat cobbled together by his father by crossing the Baltic Sea to Sweden.
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Chapter 1
Things were pretty dreary after Gunther left. Since we weren't on the road running from the Russians and the SS, Siege and I bad ...
Chapter 2
I swung the bazooka around and started around the cottage behind Siegie. He stopped suddenly. I bumped into him and almost dropp ...
Chapter 3
I guess the Americans had been in Willigrad for about three weeks when they found a school teacher. They rounded up all of the k ...
Chapter 4
Just before the Russians arrived, Siegie and I were sitting on the curb where we had sat when the Americans arrived. Dad was in ...
Chapter 5
The Commandant sat uneasily on his horse. He looked down at Dad. He had previously told Dad that he liked him because Dad was th ...
Chapter 6
Dad drove all night, slept the next day, and drove all night again. He believed that very few people would be on the roads at ni ...
Chapter 7
Mom cried.Siegie and I cried.Luther cried too, but he cried because all of us were crying.Dad just stood there with his arms aro ...
Chapter 8
Breakfast was pretty quiet that morning. The bread was good, but we didn't talk much. I wondered what we were going to do. I kno ...
Chapter 9
Monday morning Dad set about showing Mom how he could make vodka. He assembled a couple of metal milk containers and some tubing ...
Chapter 10
Dad was gone four days, and we paced anxiously awaiting his return. On the third day, we heard a knock at the door, and I went t ...
Chapter 11
The next morning Dad came to Siegie's and my room to wake us for the big day. Mom and Dad had let me spend one last night at hom ...
Chapter 12
Grandmother went into the house to change into dry clothes, and Grandfather found another place to hide his piglets. A few days ...
Chapter 13
Birthdays and time passed. I had made a commitment to myself and to Grandfather. I was determined to keep that commitment. When ...
Chapter 14
During the next week at Insel Ruegen, I watched the boat traffic from the brick mason school. The school was on a high point on ...
Chapter 15
Scared out of our wits, we stood frozen. Then, slowly, the spotlight moved, and the government’s boat continued upstream. ...
Epilogue
Manfred returned to Sassnitz to complete his education. At the age of seventeen, a full year ahead of most of his classmates, he ...
