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Road Back to Munich

Author: Gary Ross Watkins

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A true tale of two classmates at University of Munich in 1936, who became anti-Nazi activists and intimate lovers, mistakenly separated in their attempted escape from the Gestapo. Each figuring the other captured, killed or imprisoned and gone forever while Ida continued her nursing life in California for 35 years. Until that fall day in 1971, when Ida opened a mysterious letter addressed to "Ida Lundgren" with address, but no sender's name. Intrigued, Ida fired off a teary return letter stating "yes". Hans Freidman, her intimate lover, was 28 years old, and she, 23.

She thought back to good memories of those troubled times and how, now 35 years later, she waited for the train in San Diego to New York, to board a ship to Hamburg, then onward to Munich. "Hans.. please tell me it's you!?"

Gary Ross Watkins, a Viet Nam veteran (B.A. Sociology/Psychology,San Diego State, B.A. Education, U of Manitoba, M.A. Sociology U of Man.) from Winnipeg, Manitoba left home at 18 to join the US military. Through education and yearning to understand human behaviour, hetried to find his way "home" again. Today as a retired teacher he spends his time traveling the countryside, with his dog, meeting folks from the heartland, who give him a sense of worthiness and purpose to this great human struggle.