<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Once Upon a Time in Germany</em>&nbsp;is a prequel to&nbsp;<em>1984 The 18-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared</em>. It is about the boy's father whose approach to life is completely different from his son's.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born at the beginning of the Third Reich and educated during the Second World War he completes his studies in the first workers' and farmers' state by learning working and performing hard.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Having been married three times and divorced twice and being the father of four children he dedicates himself to pursuing a career and earning a decent living-refusing to allow himself to be corrupted by adverse circumstances.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this book he recounts with clarity and precise language how an apparently ordinary life works beyond the Wall. Until the day his son returns from the future.</span></p><p></p>