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WW2: The night in Lisbon – the mood, the emotion, is one you will never forget
The Night in Lisbon
What you need to know before your trail
The story of a Jewish man who goes back into Nazi Germany, risking everything to fetch his wife so they can both escape.
The world is slowly sliding into war. Enemies of the Reich have to flee at once so one young refugee plans to jump on a ship and escape to America.
As he sits on the docks in Lisbon, a stranger comes up to him with two tickets and a story to tell. What happens next will change both of their lives.
Travel Guide
The story is said to be the retelling of a story told in a single night in a cafe in Lisbon and one which reads as quite cinematic as you can see the scene in the cafe fade to those in Europe, of a man fleeing the Nazis but then returning due to the love of his wife. He then plans of escaping to Africa or somewhere equally distant but first he must survive Germany of the 1930s.
Although a story set in or around WWII, this is a new angle on what you might think of a well told story but “The Night In Lisbon” is unique for it’s seen from the eyes of a German refugee trying to escape because of his political beliefs. The struggle as well as the need to go back into his now foreign country must have been horrific. The momentous journey they both take through Switzerland, Austria, France and Spain is harrowing and poignant.
The story is also linked to a cafe in Paris where the story unfolds and which has meaning to the story and the events which follow.
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