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The Mystery of Frankenberg's Canadian Airman |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 1-55028-884-9 | |
| Pages | 248 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $34.95 | |
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Written by Peter Hessel. Published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2005. Description: |
| Growing up in Hitler's Germany, Peter Hessel witnessed the
Allies' ruthless bombing of his hometown, Chemnitz. Nearly sixty years later in
Canada, Hessel heard about a brutal, fatal beating of a nameless Canadian POW
in the streets of a small town just a few blocks from where Hessel's own family
had taken shelter. Who was this "unknown Canadian airman," and who were his murderers? Canadian authorities had forgotten the deed and never completed their investigation. Hessel felt compelled to reopen the file. His search for answers to these troubling questions would take him back and forth between Canada and Germany, as he combed through stacks of wartime records and tracked down eyewitnesses. The Mystery of Frankenberg's Canadian Airman is the account of painstaking research in a quest for the truth about an unsolved war crime. As Hessel chronicles his discovery of the airman's identity and details surrounding his death, he also describes the RCAF’s role in the destruction of Chemnitz, Dresden, and other cities, and honours not only the 10,000 Canadian airmen who lost their lives for a cause they believed in, but the countless civilians caught under their bombs. His research leads him to the identity of the murder victim, to the victim's sister, and then to a moving reconciliation where Germans who remember the airman's final days and witnessed his murder participate in a private memorial near the site of his death. This book offers a nuanced account of the morality of ordinary people, and of the actions of nations at war. |
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