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1947: In Hamburg, 1947 is the year of extremes
The Wolf Children (Inspector Frank Stave 2)
What you need to know before your trail
After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat.
In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave’s hunt for the killer leads him into the world of wolf children- orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and now united in gangs.
When two more bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure as he struggles to keep his personal life together too…
Travel Guide
Hamburg
Blohm and Voss
In Hamburg it was an open secret that the British wanted to close down once and for all what had been one of the best shipyard of the world.
The battleship was bult at the docks by Blohm and Voss and it ws from here that nearly 50 per centre of the German U Boat fleet had first slid down the gangways into the sea. Stave could still see some fifteen almost-finished hils, tubes of grey steel, some sixty to seventy feet long, with the closed torpeod door flaps in their hulls, rudders, gleaming propellor screws, a few of them so new they could almos set off immediatey to patrol the seas
The British and Americans had bombed Blohm and Voss again and again
“Beyond the last of the docks, the Elbe flowed on, fast and grey. And beyond that again ruins upon ruins with only the tower of St Michael’s rising in the heat haze like some giant tombstone”
It’s a bombed city, a ruined city with around ten and twelve children who had been the only ones in their families to survive the hail of bombs. They steal coal and other things to stay alive, they pinch ration cards and seven sell their bodes to get money and stay alive.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Wolf Children (Inspector Frank Stave 2)
Author/Guide: Cay Rademacher Destination: Hamburg Departure Time: 1947
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