Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador

Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador
ISBN-10
0773577092
ISBN-13
9780773577091
Category
History
Pages
389
Language
English
Published
2014-06-22
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Gerhard Bassler

Description

The first German arrived in Newfoundland with Leif Eirikson's Viking expedition. By 1914 St. John's was home to a vibrant German community while a Moravian enclave thrived in Labrador. Contemporary Newfoundland, however, remembers its German heritage largely in terms of U-Boat captains and local spies. Gerhard Bassler reveals what was lost when almost all earlier memories of Germans in Newfoundland and Labrador vanished.

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