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Gerhard P. Bassler. Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Gerhard P. Bassler. Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 378 pp. $89.00 hc.

Newfoundland and Labrador seems an unlikely locale for a book about Germans. As Gerhard Bassler acknowledges in his recent book, the non-British population in the province has always been minute. To even approach achieving his objective of uncovering the "footprints" (4) of Germans in Newfoundland and Labrador, Bassler is forced to examine a long period of time. Germans, he suggests, have been present here in some form from the arrival of the Vikings at L'Anse au Meadows, where fragmentary evidence points to one of Leif Erikson's entourage being a German, to the "embellished" stories...

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