My parents lived in pre-war Europe under the threat of Hitler and the Nazi regime. As a soldier and counterintelligence agent, my father witnessed the death and devastation wrought by a tyrannical man and his collaborators. In 1956, my father had the unique opportunity to return to Germany at the invitation of the West German government, where his story came full circle. He was once again ‘eyes and ears’ in a country whose people were rebuilding a new foundation of hope atop the ravages of a warped propaganda. This is not a novel. There is no building climax, nor a satisfactory resolution to that climax. Instead, it is a glimpse, through letters, into the lives of two people who happened to spend remarkable years, at a remarkable time, in a remarkable country that changed the world forever-World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history.
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It wasn’t until years after her parents were gone and she was living in Asheville, NC, that Susan Kandt Peterson read the bundles of letters that they had written from a pre-war Europe under the threat of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party, letters written during WWII when her father was a secret agent with the Counter Intelligence Corps, and letters written from postwar Germany. Growing up, she had heard stories her mother and father had told, but they were remembrances only, told to ears too young to comprehend a war that was still being chronicled.Reading the letters as an adult, her parents came alive as young newlyweds; curious, adventuresome, sometimes naive, and deeply in love. Her father became the soldier and spy that he was. Their stories now had dimension with color, new meaning and new emotion as the world was hurled into WWII.
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