Albert Hausmann: The Life And Times Of A German Ss Officer

Synopsis Albert Hausmann: The Life and Times of a German SS Officer Albert Hausmann is left on the steps of a Bavarian orphanage on Christmas Eve, 1910. He yearns to find his mother. Albert is sent to work as a lab cleaner for a doctor. Professor, Gropius. He lives with his employer Albert falls in love with Gropius's daughter, Katerina,he is evicted by Gropius's wife after Gropius's death Gropius, his benefactor, provided for a medical school education, Albert attends the university at Padua where he meets a Jewish doctor, Pomis. Albert returns to Hitler's Germany. Albert wishes to pursue genetic replication (government wishing to promulgate more "Aryans") and, as such, is inducted into the SS. He goes to Auschwitz where he can pursue this. He is on the selection line when Pomis appears before him. Albert requests a transfer and returns to Germany with Pomis in disguise. He hides Pomis at the orphanage. Albert finds Katerina and they start an affair. Albert is sent to a lebensborn facility, one where Aryan women are impregnated by SS officers to produce Aryan children for the Reich. Albert delivers a nun's child, Adam (Sister Ursula was forced to have sex to save her mother) and Albert ends up caring for the child. WW II ends, Albert must leave Germany. He is on a Turkish boat to Syria. The Turks toss him overboard, with the infant, Adam, on an unseaworthy dinghy. The dinghy is about to sink when Albert and child are rescued by a ship transporting Jews to Palestine. Albert works with the Jewish forces, a perfect cover for him. Albert remains in Palestine/Israel with his secret of being an SS officer. Albert ultimately discovers his mother in Israel and realizes he is Jewish. He is re-united with Katerina and they ultimately marry. Adam, discharged from the Israeli Defense Forces, visits Pomis in Italy and discovers a picture of Albert in an SS uniform. The distraught Adam flees to Miami Beach where he has friends, never wanting to see Albert again Albert travels to the US, reunites with Adam, they return to Israel. Adam attends medical school and becomes a physician. Katerina spies for Israel, goes to Syria on assignment to spy on a former lover, a Syrian official. She is discovered, almost stoned to death and rescued by an Israeli helicopter. She dies soon afterwards Prior to Albert's death, he discovers a note from his mother revealing his father--Gropius consequently, he has been married to his sister. This synopsis is bare-bones with many other events occurring. The story takes place in Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Russia, Palestine/Israel, Syria and the United States.

• | Author: Stephen B. Lourie
• | Publisher: Xlibris
• | Publication Date: Oct 30, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1543452221
• | ISBN-13: 9781543452228