FORTUNE CALLS (Story of a bi-racial Jew in Nazi Germany)

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The early years of Nazi rule in Germany brings Hans Wette's world crashing down. As he embraces a father in Africa he barely knows, he tries to reconcile himself with his past and the new reality around him.

Despite his deep love for Germany and overwhelming commitment to his German family, Hans sails to Africa, dreaming of a new life with his father and adventures with his Jewish childhood friend who already calls British Cameroons home.

Hans settles into his unavoidable role as the son of an African legend, tames his impulses to find peace with his passions, and then comes to terms with his new family and enchanted world.

Set against the background of the early years of Nazi rule in Germany, Fortune Calls is a moving story of a mixed-race young man as he confronts his identity in the new Germany and grapples with hostility until it climaxes in a xenophobic attack.

Fortune Calls is the first book in a trilogy entitled Disciples of Fortune . It is the forerunner to Fortune's Master, the second book telling the story of Josef Nana Njike — a whiz-kid adopted and taken to Germany   by a German colonial soldier;  where he earns a university degree, falls in love and cuddles a son he cannot raise as his own; but then returns to German Kamerun and builds a family and business empire that opens the floodgates of Cameroonian consciousness that challenges the new French overlords in their plans for the total subjugation of the former German colony.

                                                                                      

QUITTING POLYGAMY AS A GOOD MAN

White Man's Way

Quannah Parker, a native American of the Comanche ethnic group, adopted many of the white man's ways after he quit the warpath. However, he clung to one aspect of the custom of his fathers until his old age. He continued to be a polygamist.

He was a friend and admirer of President Theodore Roosevelt and on one occasion when Roosevelt was touring Oklahoma, he drove out to Parker's camp to see him.


With pride, Parker pointed out that he lived in a house like a white man, his children went to a white man's school, and he himself dressed like a white man - whereupon Roosevelt was moved to preach him a sermon on the subject of morality.


"See here, chief, why don't you set your people a better example? A white man has only one wife - he's allowed only one at a time. Here you are living with five squaws. Why don't you give up four of them and remain faithful to the fifth?"


Parker stood still a moment, considering the proposition. Then he answered, "You are my great white father, and I will do as you wish - on one condition."

"What is the condition?" asked Roosevelt.


"You pick out the one I am to live with and then you go kill the other four."

You shouldn’t have married so many in the first place; Roosevelt thought.

But he could not offer another solution that would not involve Parker hurting the women who loved him.