Difference between revisions of "The Hansa Way"
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| − | ''Spring of 1945: [[Marie]]'s mother is an outcast in her home country. In hopes of finding her lover, she sets sail on a journey, hopping from reallocated navy destroyers | + | ''Spring of 1945: The German army, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth Scorched earth] Northern Finland during their retreat to Norway, leaving a desolated land behind. [[Marie]]'s mother, pregnant from Wehrmacht soldier, is now an outcast in her home country. In hopes of finding her lost lover, she sets sail on a journey with her new born daughter, hopping from fishing trawlers to reallocated navy destroyers and cargo ships along the Hansa route leading her from Helsinki to Danzig via Tallinn and Riga. She is finally evacuated to Lübeck along with thousands of ethic Germans expelled from Soviet controlled Poland. |
| + | ====HESLSINKI, HOSPITAL, APRIL 25, 1945==== | ||
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| + | ''[[MarieMom]] is delivering her baby daughter as the radio announces that the German Army has retreated to Norway. Amidst the celebration that follows, she is being pressured by her family not to divulge the identity of the baby's father. Not wanting to bear such a burden on her daughter and yearning to find her lover upon hearing about Hitler's death a few days later, she talks to Red Cross personnel at the stationed at the hospital who assist her in tracking the father's family in Danzig. In the disarray that follows the German capitulation and with no way of communicate via mail or telegraph, she embarks on a fishing boat secretly sailing to Soviet controlled Estonia the day Marie turns one month. | ||
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| + | ====TALLINN==== | ||
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| + | ''U-boat seized and reallocated to Baltic Fleet to Danzig. | ||
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| + | ''Newly christened CTS-11 (formerly U-3541) is sailed back to Danzig by its captured German crew under Soviet command and escort. MarieMom and Marie embark as clandestine passengers on the damaged submarine by apathetic German seamen in exchange family jewelry. | ||
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| + | ===DANZIG==== | ||
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| + | ''Following its liberation by the Red Army, the city is in disarray and prone to "ethnic cleansing". MarieMom finds her lover's family home reposed by displaced Poles. Claiming the German citizenship of her daughter, she takes part in a massive exodus of Ethnic Germans towards the west. | ||
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| + | ====LUBECK==== | ||
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| + | MarieMom and Marie take shelter in a house bordering the British and Soviet zones where Marie was eventually raised. | ||
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Revision as of 23:32, 28 May 2013
OUTLINE
Spring of 1945: The German army, Scorched earth Northern Finland during their retreat to Norway, leaving a desolated land behind. Marie's mother, pregnant from Wehrmacht soldier, is now an outcast in her home country. In hopes of finding her lost lover, she sets sail on a journey with her new born daughter, hopping from fishing trawlers to reallocated navy destroyers and cargo ships along the Hansa route leading her from Helsinki to Danzig via Tallinn and Riga. She is finally evacuated to Lübeck along with thousands of ethic Germans expelled from Soviet controlled Poland.
HESLSINKI, HOSPITAL, APRIL 25, 1945
MarieMom is delivering her baby daughter as the radio announces that the German Army has retreated to Norway. Amidst the celebration that follows, she is being pressured by her family not to divulge the identity of the baby's father. Not wanting to bear such a burden on her daughter and yearning to find her lover upon hearing about Hitler's death a few days later, she talks to Red Cross personnel at the stationed at the hospital who assist her in tracking the father's family in Danzig. In the disarray that follows the German capitulation and with no way of communicate via mail or telegraph, she embarks on a fishing boat secretly sailing to Soviet controlled Estonia the day Marie turns one month.
TALLINN
U-boat seized and reallocated to Baltic Fleet to Danzig.
Newly christened CTS-11 (formerly U-3541) is sailed back to Danzig by its captured German crew under Soviet command and escort. MarieMom and Marie embark as clandestine passengers on the damaged submarine by apathetic German seamen in exchange family jewelry.
DANZIG=
Following its liberation by the Red Army, the city is in disarray and prone to "ethnic cleansing". MarieMom finds her lover's family home reposed by displaced Poles. Claiming the German citizenship of her daughter, she takes part in a massive exodus of Ethnic Germans towards the west.
LUBECK
MarieMom and Marie take shelter in a house bordering the British and Soviet zones where Marie was eventually raised.