The U-Boat Filled with Gold
A Romantic War Story
Imprint: Resource Publications
368 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.74 in
- Paperback
- 9781666746679
- Published: June 2022
$35.00 / £28.00 / AU$55.00
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A young man from South West Africa goes to Germany to study nautical engineering and falls in love with a girl whom he later marries. That forces him to stay in Germany and to join the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy, as a submarine officer. During the Second World War he becomes the captain of a successful U-boat, while his wife is killed during an American bombing raid. He finds the new love of his life in occupied Norway. At the end of the war, he is involved in a secret operation, namely to smuggle three tons of Nazi gold to South America in the newest type of U-boat.
Adelbert Scholtz is a retired South African minister of religion and a practicing psychologist with doctorates in the history of Christianity and psychology. He is the author of various books on (church) history, practical theology and psychology and lectured part-time at two universities. During his study in Europe, he served as a part-time civilian chaplain on a hospital ship of the Dutch Navy. He also served as a part-time chaplain in the South African Army during 1978–1994.
Visit him at www.helderbergpsychologist.co.za.
“By reading this entertaining story, the reader is transported to Nazi Germany with all the upheavals caused by two world wars. The story is well structured and gripping, with many unexpected twists, a surprising ending, and insights into the main character’s emotional life and the choices he has to make.”
—Alexander Higgs, journalist
“Adelbert Scholtz, with his brilliant academic record, surely knows how to write historical fiction. His stories are solidly structured, reliably researched, and eminently entertaining. He is able to recreate the past with words, and as a qualified psychologist and retired military chaplain, he creates credible characters who have to make difficult decisions in a chaotic war situation. He is destined to become a best-selling author of fiction.”
—Jan Nieder-Heitmann, theologian