Story

Somewhere in Germany is the story of a young southern man from a small town in Georgia who was drafted into the US Army in 1944. After being deployed to germany in 1945, Paul Crook arrived in this foreign land when the war was almost at an end. But not before he was involved in a fierce battle, and he became a hero. All of his unit was killed except him and Robert, his friend and comrade. They were transferred to  another unit where they were assigned to stand Post near a small town named Fahrenzhausen. Fahrenzhausen sat in the low lands of Bavaria, in the shadows of the Alps. Better known as the garden district near Munich. There he met Anna Reinoehl and they became good friends due to a little girl named Little Sonya. As time went by, Anna and Paul fell in love inspite of their cultural and language differences for he could not speak German, and she could not speak English.  The love between the two was felt by the whole town, and the soldiers in the unit as well. Paul took Anna to English lessons in a nearby neighboring town named Ingoldstalt. Just when the two were in love, and could not stand to be a part from each other, Paul had to leave Fahrenzhausen on a new mission in England. He was supposed to return to Fahrenzhausen to his regular duties, but instead recieved papers for him to return to the United States and to report to Fort Bragg, NC. He had no way to send word to Anna that he was leaving the country. He reluctantly got on a ship in England and headed back to the United States, vowing that he would return to Germany as soon as possible, to return to Anna and Fahrenzhausen. His love was there, and he had fell in love with the little town. He would return there after being discharged from the Army. His sudden release from the military, led to his trip home to Georgia where his mother had just purchased a 70 acre farm out of the allotment he had sent home to her out of his military pay. When he got to the farm, there was much work to do for it was basically a shack and needed many repairs and land that had to be cleared. This would take time and alot of money. This is the story of the aftermath of the love between Paul and Anna and the realization of their love 60 years later when letters written in German were found at the family farm,  where they had spent 60 years in a hatbox, crying out to be discovered. The love story became apparent to all of us in 2005, when none of us knew anything about the letters or the love between Anna and Paul. But the letters started crying out to us, saying- find out about me, I am harboring a secret. The journey the letters took our family on, by writing to Anna, at the 60 year old return address on the original letters from 1946 became extreme emotional and shocking when we got an answer from someone in Germany about the letters. When we realized who they were from- left us dumbfounded and stunned, but happy that the letters had existed or we would never had found our new relatives!