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

Gerhard P. Bassler

oct 2006 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Vikings to U-Boats explores the colony's hidden multicultural history, examining both sides of the German-Newfoundland/Labrador experience. From first recorded contacts to the end of World War II, Bassler traces the lives of German-speaking fishermen, musicians, doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. He reconstructs the historical reality behind U-Boat and spy stories and analyses the change in status of the colony's German-speaking people from neighbours to "enemy aliens." Vikings to U-Boats challenges the assumption that the history of Newfoundland and Labrador was shaped solely by English-speakers from the British Isles.

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Bassler Gerhard P. : Gerhard P. Bassler is the author of numerous books, including Sanctuary Denied: Refugees from the Third Reich and Newfoundland Immigration Policy 1906-1949, and professor emeritus, history, Memorial University of Newfoundland.Gerhard P. Bassler is the author of numerous books, including Sanctuary Denied: Refugees from the Third Reich and Newfoundland Immigration Policy 1906-1949, and professor emeritus, history, Memorial University of Newfoundland.