Publisher's Synopsis
In 1922 Anna Lou Fell was born in Coblenz on the Rhine, Germany, to a German mother and an American World War I soldier. Shortly afterward, the family moved to America where they remained until Anna Lou was age nine. At that point her mother separated from her American husband and moved back to Germany with Anna Lou and her sister. The year was 1931 and Hitler was just coming to power. She remained in Germany until May 1946, a year after the war ended. During the war Anna Lou's dual citizenship made her suspect to both the American and German governments, but nonetheless she was forced into the Nazi's conscripted labor force. The last days of the war found her on her bicycle desperately searching for a place where battles weren't raging. Once the fighting was over, Anna Lou worked as an interpreter for the occupying forces. This memoir, An American Fräulein, deals with her life in Germany during those turbulent years. It was written as a letter to her betrothed, Rev. Carl Jacob Bollinger in St. Paul, Minnesota.
