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Professor Kueter has found a way to provide an understanding of the incomprehensible and open up conversation through empathy and humor. The background to the story is not something anyone who has not experienced the darkest side of humanity can always feel confident, let alone comfortable, laughing about. And it can be difficult to communicate or teach this key time in modern history. But Hubert Kueter's book comes to the rescue, even bringing a mouthwatering treasure of regional recipes. The teenage escapades, guided by the inspiration of Reynard the Fox, are like a Huck Finn adventure, turning the horror into excitement, until the next challenge. And then comes romance, with the iconic Brigitte, like the goddess Freya in the imagination of young Horst, the author's name for himself, in order to tell this tale of a time we must never forget.

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Hubert Kueter's accomplishment in this memoir is a unique literary triumph, but it is as well a vivid account of the strength of the human spirit. --Ferdinand Jones, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Brown University, editor, The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music With a large dose of humor, Hubert Kueter has written a fascinating book that is hard to put down. The experience of people with mixed background in Nazi Germany is an area of great interest to historians, and this account will contribute to it. But the book offers much more. It is written with a wit and elegance that reveal a remarkable talent. Kueter relishes in his schemes to outwit the Nazis, and he takes every opportunity to reveal his passion for culinary intricacies, which he describes in vivid prose. The book is often so downright funny that it almost lets the reader forget the very serious context of persecution, war, and other direct threats. --Raffael Scheck, PhD, Chair, Department of History, Colby College This is what the novels of magic realism and Hubert Kueter's My Tainted Blood do to a high degree. They take their readers on wondrous journeys driven by myth and memory. --Peter Arnds, PhD, Professor of German and Italian, Kansas State University, author of Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in GuÌ nter Grass's The Tin Drum

Hubert Kueter's accomplishment in this memoir is a unique literary triumph, but it is as well a vivid account of the strength of the human spirit. --Ferdinand Jones, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Brown University, editor, The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music With a large dose of humor, Hubert Kueter has written a fascinating book that is hard to put down. The experience of people with mixed background in Nazi Germany is an area of great interest to historians, and this account will contribute to it. But the book offers much more. It is written with a wit and elegance that reveal a remarkable talent. Kueter relishes in his schemes to outwit the Nazis, and he takes every opportunity to reveal his passion for culinary intricacies, which he describes in vivid prose. The book is often so downright funny that it almost lets the reader forget the very serious context of persecution, war, and other direct threats. --Raffael Scheck, PhD, Chair, Department of History, Colby College This is what the novels of magic realism and Hubert Kueter's My Tainted Blood do to a high degree. They take their readers on wondrous journeys driven by myth and memory. --Peter Arnds, PhD, Professor of German and Italian, Kansas State University, author of Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in GuÌ nter Grass's The Tin Drum

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Hubert C. Kueter, born 1930 in Breslau, Germany, received his PhD in Germanic languages and literature at the University of Michigan. He taught German language and literature at Colby College from 1965 to 1997. During the first ten years at Colby, he enjoyed working part time as a certified ski instructor at Sugarloaf USA. Following a lifelong interest in good cuisine, he opened the Johann Sebastian B Restaurant in Oakland, Maine, of which he was the owner/manager/chef from 1975 to 2003.

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