I Surrendered in Germany to U.S. Forces.
I was 14 years old.
My sister Anne was 6 months old.
To avoid becoming a P.O.W. I discarded my German uniform.
The baby's clothes, my pullover and trousers
were given to us in Tittling i. Dreiburgenland
by friendly Bavarian locals.

Coming To America
1. Germany, Just Before Leaving For U.S.A.
2. Coming To America
3. Really Coming To America
The author is in the middle.

Thank You Letter
from Former President George Bush

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Adolf Hitler's Retreat
Adolf Hitler 3rd from left returns the salute of his guests
at Berchtesgarden in Bavaria, Germany.

Sinister plans would soon play themselves out that would directly affect us
and some 175,000,000 people and then the rest of the world.

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“ Dear Tad, Your fascinating life story arrived in the mail and kept me reading it breathless. Your father’s escape from Siberia, your conscription by the Germans, the retreat to Bavaria after their army collapsed and your amazing integration in the American society, fulfilling convincingly the legend of the so-called American Dream. It constitutes as others already stated too, the ingredients for an epic novel.

Tad, I thank you and greet you warmly! ”

— Cornelis Suijk,
President Contemporary Holocaust Education Foundation, New York,
November 8, 2007

“ You have a fascinating story of the 20th century's most bloody years, and told from being right in the middle. ”

— Wayne Green, Ph. D., Founder of Mensa

“ I can't begin to imagine the hell you as a 12-year-old kid went through. A fascinating read this is! ”

— Former President George H. W. Bush

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In 1941, I was 11 years old in Hitler's German Army as Nazi labor.
1952 never went to school, got off the boat in NY Harbor
from Germany as a U.S. Soldier, could not speak or read English.

"Freedom is the Strength of Our Nation."
33 years later
"Whispering Pines"

PRISONER

1929 My Father Josef’s first deportation to Siberia
Winter 1930.
My father, Josef Przegalinski, Cutting trees in the Russian Taiga, Khabarovsk, Siberia.

I had to do this drawing from my memory of a drawing that was hanging on the wall in our house alongside with a portrait of my Father; it was done by my Fathers Brother Pawel when they joined my Father in this forsaken Russian Labor Camp for the purpose of passing to my Father a forged passport. My Mother and I were picked up by armed German soldiers in 1942.

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Adolf Hitler's Retreat
Close up of Hitler
Life changing staff meeting for the upcoming "Barbarossa", the code name
for the invasion
by Germany into Russia,
The Soviet Union,
June 22, 1941.
This was the beginning of World War II.