Birth of a Tumbleweed: Memoirs of Growing Up in Post-Nazi Germany

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Summary: A true and wonderful Story
Review: I have read this book with deep interest, finding that I am not alone in this world with all of the trauma that I have suffered as a result of being an 'innocent victim' of a brutality that was inflicted by monsters with whom I or my family have had no dealings. I was touched by Inge's reminiscences and can fully understand her 'tumleweed nature'. I too escaped to a different land from my birth, I was forced out as a child to Cologne where Inge spent her childhood, then I escaped again across the world to find a new life away from the traumas to the land of my choice Australia. Inge and I are the innocent
victims who have been denied the 'right' to tell our story as to what the war has meant to the 'other victims who are not allowed to speak'. I would recommend this book to any person who wants to know what the real impact of war has on 'normal and innocent people'. We did not cause or participate in
this war and yet we are expected to take the 'blame' for what others, in their monstrous actions, did. Congratulations Inge for the courage you had in writing this book. Once I started reading I could not put it down until it was
finished. We are a true generation of 'tumbleweeds'.Fred.

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Summary: A Beacon of Light from Dark Days
Review: Inge Perreault has opened a door that most American people did not know existed. In this book she shares very personal and sometimes painful memories of growing up in war-torn Germany. The downfall of a once proud nation affected the civilians who survived and struggled for years in poverty and disillusionment; the innocents. Even the children were affected, but they got by, each coping in their own way. This is the story of survival and the quest of one young girl to improve her situation by taking advantage of education in spite of emotional obstacles from her family, and the world's prejudice of all German people, then and now.