![]() ![]() ![]() Army in Wiesbaden, in the American zone of Allied-occupied Germany. In the immediate postwar period, Kempowski worked for the U.S. ![]() Kempowski's father, who had volunteered for military service at the beginning of the war, only to be turned away because of his membership in the Freemasons, was accepted for service in summer 1940, and died in combat on 26 April 1945. In early 1945 he was drafted into the Flakhelfer, the youth auxiliary of the Luftwaffe, serving in a special unit that performed courier functions. Georg School in 1939, he transferred to the local high school ("Realgymnasium").Īs a teenager Kempowski, who was unathletic and had acquired a taste for American jazz and swing music through his older brother, chafed under compulsory service in the Hitler Youth, and was transferred into a penalty unit ( Strafeinheit) of the organization. His father, Karl Georg Kempowski, was a shipping company owner and his mother, Margarethe Kempowski, née Collasius, was the daughter of a Hamburg merchant. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War. Walter Kempowski ( German pronunciation: ( listen) 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007 ) was a German writer. ![]()
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