PART ONE -- GERMANY , 1917 T0 1939 MY CHILDHOOD, 1917 to 1933 2 SHIPS BROKER, 1933 to 1936 6 LABOUR SERVICE ,1936 7 THE GERMAN NAVY, 1936 TO 1939 8 PART TWO -- THE 'GRAF SPEE' , 1939 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, AUGUST 1939 TO DECEMBER 1939 8 THE "BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE", DECEMBER 1939 9 PART THREE - SOUTH AMERICA , 1939 TO 1941 BUENOS AIRES, DECEMBER 1939 to FEBRUARY 1940 11 ST JUAN, FEBRUARY 1940 to JANUARY 1941 11 CROSSING THE ANDES, JANUARY 1941 13 CHILE, JANUARY 1941 to APRIL 1941 15 PART FOUR -- ESCAPE and CAPTURE , JUNE 1941 to DECEMBER 1941 SHIP TO JAPAN 17 JAPAN 17 THE 'ODENWALD' 18 THE 'OMAHA' 19 Pictures PART FIVE -- NORTH AMERICA , 1941 TO 1946 CAMP UPTON (December 1941 to April 1942?) 19 FORT MEAD, MARYLAND (April 1942 to October 1942?) 19 CAMP FOREST, TENNESSEE (October 1942 to May 1943) 20 FORT STANTON, NEW MEXICO (May 1943 to May 1944?) 21 FORT LINCOLN, BISMARK, NORTH DAKOTA (May 1944 to May 1945?) 21 ELLIS ISAND, NEW YORK (May 1945 to March 1946?) 22 RETURN TO GEMANY April 1946 23 PART SIX -- GERMANY , 1946 -- 1948 NORDHOLSTZ (April 1946 to June 1947) 23 CUXHAVEN (June 1947 to December 1948) 26 PART SEVEN -- COSTA RICA 28 End Notes ; correspondence 33 PICTURES -- Odenwald Incident
Helmut Ruge, 13th January 1917 -- 31th March 2009
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