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  • When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941

    When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941 - Hardcover

    When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941 - Hardcover

    By Otto Schrag, Peter Schrag, and Marcel Bervoets

About Otto Schrag Books

Otto Schrag (1902-1971) was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Germany. Among the last Jews to get a PhD from Heidelberg before the war, he entered his grandfather's beer malt-processing business. In 1935, he fled Germany, eventually settling with his family in Brussels. With the start of the German invasion, the Belgians arrested him as an enemy alien, thus beginning the events narrated here. In New York in the 1940s, he wrote three well-regarded novels. He returned to Germany in 1950 and successfully rebuilt the business the Nazis had seized. There he wrote another novel and translated From Here to Eternity into German.