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On 1st April 1944, the American Airforce accidentally bombed the Swiss town of Schaffhausen, killing forty people. Forty years later a Swiss survivor, who lost his first love in the bombing, coincidentally meets one of the American airmen at the community grave in Schaffhausen. Roy Swanepoel, born in South Africa, lives and teaches in Schaffhausen. In 2003 he won the annual Stauffacher Short Story Prize. Am 1.April 1944 bombardierte die amerik...

In 1940 Hitler staged a massive build-up of German troops on Switzerland's northern border to deceive the Swiss and Allies into thinking he would invade France through Switzerland. Ernst evacuates his family from the border and - in his concern to keep them out of harm's way - misses the mobilisation of their army. When the German invasion does not come, he and his family are forced to return to their home town in disgrace and to another decep...

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