Silberpfeile - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3552061215 ISBN 13: 9783552061217

Synopsis

A young motorsport journalist discovers a museum about racer Tazzio Nuvolari during a trip to Italy and decides to write a book about the German silver arrows of the thirties. In the photos, the name of an Austrian engineer appears again and again: Paul Windisch. His research leads the first-person narrator to a retirement home in Salzburg, where eighty-five year old Paul Windisch has lived for a few months. He wishes to drink a real coffee in his own house. There, the chief engineer remembers his work at the Auto Union, the world record attempts and the last ride of Bernd Rosemeyer, one of the most famous racers of the pre-war years.
Finally, Windisch tells how he got from the automotive industry to the war-decisive Schlier plant, which lay next to a concentration camp in the neighborhood of the Zipf brewery. In underground tunnels, V2 rockets were developed until an explosion stopped the trial series in 1944...
During his unsentimental and uninvolved journey into the past, it becomes clear that the constructor tries to displace his role in the war industry as well as the inhabitants of the place. But even for the journalist, this trip does not remain without consequences.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3552061215
• ISBN 13: 9783552061217
• Binding: Hardcover