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After the Bombs - My Berlin

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After The Bombs - My Berlin
by
Heidemarie Sieg
 

        This recollection begins with the life of a German family at the beginning of the First World War and continues with their struggles in the aftermath of the Second World War.
        After the war Berlin was mostly rubble and the Cold War was heating up. The Berlin Blockade  and the construction of The Wall placed the city in the center of the Cold War.  
        After The Bombs reflects on the hardships  and strict society of the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Heidi responds to these challenges with an adventurous spirit that reminds us all that we are stewards of our own destiny.  

                                                          
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            Heidemarie Sieg, Heidi, lives in northern New Mexico with her husband Trent Smith.  She loves to paint, hike in the mountains and tend her flower garden. She is also working on her next book - working title: Nine Lives and More.

 

 

 

 

 

Notes from the author - 
    
                Writing a book was the furthest thing from my mind when I first started to make notes about conversations that I'd heard about World War II and the years before.  "Remember when..." recollections by my relatives were especially memorable and rich with information.  
                Years went by, I was asking follow-up questions and my notebook started to bulge. I began turning my notes into essays. Being immersed in the past also brought forth many of my own memories of growing up in Berlin and about events that I had not paid attention to for a while.i I            
            Yes, we all recovered from World War II but scars remain,  some families carry more than others.  Even now in 2011, 66 years after the end of the war, I feel anger at the mention of war.
            Political leaders declare war, but the people have to carry it out and ultimately are the ones really paying for it. Children of war casualties are penalized most, as they are denied a normal chain of events in their youth. 
            This ultimately led to writing this book, to document the effects of war as I experienced them.  People forget the long reaching and lasting ripple effects of war. 
             I was only one of hundreds of thousands half-orphans.  I'm sure my experiences are not that unusual.  But without war my father would have been around and we could have been a complete family.
        
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