Chapter 11 HPV: My father
My father as I knew him in the 1970s.
An example of Marianne's corrections to her son's letters during WWII.
The 1944 telegram I found among my father's letters.
Eva and Hans during the war.
Hans gets his bike at last, 1942.
My parent's wedding in 1955.
Early 1990s, my father visited Opava after the fall of the Iron Curtain and sought out the memorial to Therese, his maternal grandmother.
The Winged Lion Memorial in Prague. My father is listed as Hanuš Petr Vogel - a name he never used in his letters to his parents.