Trees gets a Canadian

Title: Trees Gets a Canadian

Author: Bonnie Okkema

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789057308741

Condition: Good

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Description:
Fortunately, you are not the child of an occupier, but of a liberator. Fortunately, your mother in love was on the 'good side'. Yet that seems to make little difference, because while every five years the whole of the Netherlands stands cheering on the sidelines when the liberators roll past again in their Jeeps and tanks, mother still keeps her mouth shut. The crazy summer of '45 and the time after that is taboo for her: the period in which the opinion about the liberators changed considerably.

At the end of 1945, the Netherlands would rather be rid of these allied soldiers. At the time, girls who went with the allied soldiers were not only spoken and written about with concern but also with disdain. The difference in approach to a Kraut girl or a Canadel seems small. Moreover, after more than five years of chaos, it was high time to put a stop to the youth and moral degeneration.

Trees got a Canadian and since then her mouth has been locked. For the 'Canadian' growing up is sometimes a tough job, it is a lifelong struggle with life. It always gnaws: "My mother didn't want me, and my father doesn't even know I'm here."
And if you manage to find your father, sometimes he doesn't want to know anything about you. Ninety percent initially didn't want to be found. But sometimes open arms are waiting on the other side of the ocean, from him or from family. An ideal image that many liberation children still look forward to.