Published: Feb. 18, 2012
Words: 117,438 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780977911905

Short description

American teen-ager is drafted into the German army while studying in Berlin. He finds himself assigned to the Afrika Korps. When the Germans surrender, he is transported to the U.S., and put in a POW camp located some 150 miles from his hometown of Broken Bow, Neb. He escapes and finds himself on his way back to Europe.

Extended description

A World War II novel about a teen-aged Nebraska farm boy who travels to Germany for the 1936 Olympics. He enrolls in medical school and, after two years, is drafted into the German army because he refuses to join the Nazi party. He finds himself assigned as a valet to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. When the Afrika Korps surrenders, our hero is sent to a POW camp 150 miles from his hometown...Upon his return home he finds a surprise waiting for him and soon embarks upon a long journey back to Europe.
This story is based upon true incidents. When World War II broke out, several hundred young Americans studying, touring, or visiting relatives in Germany, Italy, and Japan, were pressed into those respective services against their will. After the war, retrieving their citizenship became somewhat of a nightmare to several of these young people.

Tags

nazi, hitler, germany, nebraska, omaha, oss, iowa, rommel, lincoln nebraska, afrika korps, danzig, broken bow, clarinda, kearney

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Review by: John L. Nunes on March 15, 2012 :
Tom Morrow’s Nebraska Doppelganger wraps an intriguing work of fiction around true events during World War II.
When the U.S. entered the war in 1941, hundreds of American expatriates, as well as students, tourists, and those visiting relatives were pressed into military service up by Germany, Italy, and Japan. They were forced to fight against the Allies. The alternative was imprisonment.
“Doppelganger" tells the story of John Krauss, a Nebraska teenager who accompanies his German-immigrant father back to Germany for the 1936 Olympics. The Nebraska farm boy remains and enters medical school in Berlin. A few years later, John is drafted into the German army after refusing to join the Nazi party and spy on America.
John is befriended by an officer who gets assigned to the famed Afrika Korps. John becomes a valet to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. In 1943, when the Germans surrendered to the Allies in North Africa, John and more than 125,000 Germans are sent to the U.S. to be interned in POW camps.
As luck would have it, John is sent to a camp in Clarinda, Iowa, some 150 miles from his family's Nebraska farm. He escapes, and when John finally returns home, there is a surprise waiting for him. John's odyssey is only beginning.
I found the novel engrossing, and was fascinated by the level of little-known World War II history provided.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: read more on March 13, 2012 :
A very interesting well written story . The subject is an eye opener and will keep you enthralled as well as acquaint with history that was a story in itself. Read it .
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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