Reseña del libro "Finding Margaret's father leads to Nazi intrigue (en Inglés)"
"Finding Margaret's father leads to Nazi intrigue" is the true story of Margaret's biological Father. Margaret was born in Amsterdam the Netherlands, then immigrated, when she was three years old, to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.After the Second World War, in May 1945, her mother met a Canadian soldier and they married in the spring of 1946? and after that he returned to Canada, to arrange living quarters for his family. Then in the fall of 1946 Margaret's mother, including the two little girls, immigrated to join him. In the spring of 1950, Margaret, her mother and sister, traveled to the Netherlands for a summer holiday. It was getting close to Christmas when a stranger called at her grandparent's house in Hague and demanded to see Wilhelm Bauer's wife. Because they did not know this man they never invited him in, only told him to go away. He became loud and swore that he would return, then left. After that incident her mother, maybe because she was afraid of what this man might do, wanted to leave the Netherlands. They departed from Liverpool England on December 30, 1950 on the RMS "ASCANIA", and arrived in Halifax, Canada on January 8, 1951. After that episode, they did not return to the Netherlands for over twenty-five years, and never saw her parents again. Many years later Margaret and Bruce lived in a large apartment, which had a laundry room. Margaret, while doing her laundry, was talking to a neighbor who said she was from the Netherlands, had married a Canadian soldier, and immigrated to Canada as a war bride. "What a coincidence", Margaret told her, "My mother is Dutch, who also came to Canada as a war bride." This neighbor lasked Margaret when she was born and she replied it was on the 31st of August 1943. She said it was impossible for her to be a daughter of a Canadian soldier, because they did not arrive in the Netherlands until Liberation Day May 7, 1945. A couple of months later while visiting friends, Margaret mentioned what this neighbor had said about her father. To her surprise, they were told by her aunt, her mothers sister, that the man Margaret calles dad is not her father. This news devastated her because now there were two people telling her that the man she calls dad, whas not her dad. They were saying that her mother, the one she loved, was keeping whom her father is a secret.The next day Margaret went to her parent's house, who were on vacation, to search for some papers. She felt it better to do so alone, plus she was afraid of what she might find. Margaret was looking for some pictures of herself and her Canadian father or a document which confirmed when they got married. After they returned from their holidays Margaret visited her mother who was furious with Margaret for going through her private papers but gave no explanation about her birth. Not long after that, because Margaret felt sorry for having made her mother so angry, she returned to have a private discussion. Her mother told her that her fathers name was Wilhelm Bauer she called him Willie, and that Margaret had been conceived out of a loving relationship. If this had been known during the war Margaret's mother may have been treated like many other Dutch girls who had children from German soldiers. Because, as punishment, they had their heads shaven by men roaming the streets, who when the job was completed would dump a pail of human excrement on their heads and parade them around town. Also, if Margaret had stayed in the Netherlands, she would have been "Born Wrong" (fout born) a label which would have hampered her getting an education or job. But she was in Canada and spared all the unpleasantness that happened over there.However, we were still curious and wanted to know why Margaret's mother never wanted to talk about Wilhelm Bauer. We even contacted the German Red Cross, but with only a name and nothing else this was impossible. Then on a trip through Europe we found some documents and we were astonished at what we found out
