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Description: | Photocopy of ts account (188pp including illustrations) describing the lives of his English mother and German father (work in London up to 1914, marriage, treatment during the First World War, internment in Alexandra Palace/Northern Ireland, 1917 - 1918, forced repatriation and life in different countries especially Germany up to 1945) and his own life including: broken home life, upbringing in a guardian's home in England between the wars, training and service as a musician in the Army (no unit given), 1930 - 1940, in Malta, Palestine and Egypt (before the war) and in France in 1940 including the Dunkirk evacuation, his forced retirement from the army on medical/nationality grounds, service as a stretcher bearer in the London Blitz, accusations of spying by Special Branch and work as a musician during the war. The account gives very interesting details of his trips to see his father in Germany and German life in the 1930s as well as people's ambivalent/hostile attitude to his dual nationality, sex, love, and homosexuality in the Army (1930 - 1940).
Cataloguer PHR
Catalogue date 1987-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Engler, Karl | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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