I'll see you again Lady Liberty (3)

I'll See You Again Lady Liberty Ernst W Floeter Read Aug 2020 Story of a young man growing up in NW Germany when Hitler came to power. He turns 18 in 1945 and is drafted in the Army, by a set of concoindence and luck he gets transfered several times before his old unit takes heavy losses. He is caputred as an American POW shortly after D day in France. They are sent to the US and move through several different place. He spends most of his time in Texas and New Mexico during farm work. After the war he is sent home to destroyed Germany. Within 10 years he is given the opportuity to move to the US and he and is wife and small child move here where he starts a new life working largely in photography. A really interesting look a life in German prior to WW2 and how not everybody was caught up with Hitler's movement. Ernst had always like the US he had learned from movies and books and was thrilled to be able cross the country by train as a POW en route to he new camp. He settles in a small town near Lansing MI, where I live. There is a German supper club there which I was a member of for a while and I recall Ernst there, I didnt really know him, but I recall him taking a picture of me and my young daughter at a Xmas party.