| #2080576 in Books | 2015-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.62 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating window on Alberta history|By Nicole Luiken|Fascinating window on Alberta history: some German POWs were sent to northern Alberta to work in a logging camp. Needless to say tensions were high, with many Canadians having relatives still fighting or dead in the war and angry at the "Jerries" as well as factions within the POWs themselves. I sympathized both with Erich|From School Library Journal|Gr 8 Up—When 17-year-old German Erich Hofmeyer's Nazi ship goes down at sea he's taken to a Canadian prisoner of war camp but finds that he's not allegiant enough to the Nazis for his fellow prisoners. After he is severely beate
Seventeen-year-old Erich is a prisoner of war working at a northern Alberta logging camp. Twelve-year-old Max goes to school―reluctantly―in the nearby town. The two would be unlikely friends, except that neither has anyone else to turn to. At the height of World War II, nobody wants to befriend a German.
It doesn’t matter that Erich was forced into the military by his father, or that Max was proudly born in Canada. They are both easy targets for the ...
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