This is not a long biography but tales about the experiences I had during a turbulent time in world affairs. I hope that they provide material that may make you smile or, if you are in the mood for historical events, that they might shine some light on what was going on in the world from the mid 1800’s through today. If nothing else, it provides a view into my world to those who follow me!
Living “under the Radar” in 1945
As recalled by:
Peter Schaper; September 1, 2015
Last night during dinner at Coco’s, spurred on by a remark about my life in 1944/45 in Berlin made by Muck in his last email, I proceeded to tell Mike about “pe…
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From Bremen to Berlin, October 1944 to January 1945
Berlin-Friedenau, January 1945
Report by Peter Wolfgang Schaper (Wölf)
On Sunday, October 8, 1944, in the evening at about 11 :00 PM. our doorbell in Bremen sounded. A gentleman, who introduced him…
“Curse you, Red Baron!”
War Scar on Forehead
July 10, 2017
So my daughter Janet asked me: “you have this scar on your forehead – what’s the story behind it? Does it relate to World War II?” About eighty years later, I have to admi…
On a lazy spring evening in 1949 Peter W. Schaper, Pete, and James E. Plemel, Jim, were sitting in their room on the 3rd floor of Cary Hall NW at Purdue University supposedly studying. Somehow there were too many distractions on this Saturday evening…
Wolfy Boarding His First Flight on American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in 1947
Destination: Washington, DC – Achim Weyl’s house.
The year 1947 was my senior year at Kingston High School in upstate New York and the family was helping me…
My “Comment” on Mary Alice Rausch/Schaper Biography –August 25, 2016
-Peter W. Schaper
On August 1, 2016 I finally posted this biography of my loving wife, 4 ½ years after her death. Now, a few weeks after the post, I have decided that, severa…
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Perpetuating Fine Arts
I started this blog with a tale of my care-free years during my early childhood in the Buchenstrasse. It is now high time to write about the person who was responsible for making my adult life a time of extreme happiness and…
That’s what Jessica asked me yesterday, July 27, 2000 in Kauai. Well, the answer is, yes, I did and it is one of my treasured memories. Not because he was world famous, but because of the kind person he was. But that part belongs at the end of…
February 3, 1889 to June 9, 1962
Written by her son, Peter Wolfgang Schaper
Foreword
In order to fully appreciate the extraordinary person Elsbeth Yvonne Schaper was during her lifetime it is necessary to understand a few facts about the world into w…
My famous grandfather, Fritz Schaper, realized, as he was approaching the age of 50 that he needed a work space that was larger than anything he could reasonably rent. He was also beginning to think that he would like to have a close family around hi…
I just recently found a translation I did a few years ago of a famous article written by my cousin Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann for the German newspaper Das Reich. It has been around the internet for a while, but, to the best of my knowledge, never in En…
Growing up in the Buchenstrasse
On June 13, 1928 my father, Wolfgang Schaper, announced to his family my entering this world in this rather novel manner, stating that “I am present!” in the apartment in Berlin, near the family home built by my gr…