The Geheb family in Germany was always concerned about their adventurous son and brother. Willy was the only one of the family to move farther than twenty-five miles from the family home.
Just one mere month after writing to his family about his new job working as a blacksmith, Willy gets the disappointing news he has been laid off. Feeling discouraged by the news, he doesn’t know what to do next.
A Brazilian Adventure Awaits In 1923, Willy packed up his tools and bought a one-way ticket to Brazil. Germans had been immigrating to Brazil for almost one hundred years, and he saw no future in…
WW1 Ends and The Deustchmark Declines Finally, after four years of war, WW1 ends on November 11, 1918 with the German Armistice with the Allies. Even though the Germans are overwhelmed militarily and people are…