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The Bright Side of the Doom

The Bright Side of the Doom

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 A prequel to The 18-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared. Based on actual events that took place between 1933 and 1989.

Manfred Jannot, born in 1933 in Ahlsdorf (Saxony-Anhalt), has lived in Leipzig (Saxony) since 1968. He studied education there and graduated as a teacher. He previously worked as a qualified welder and pipe fitter.

He was later involved in the construction of the Druschba line. Until reunification, he managed a department of the municipal housing administration in Leipzig. He has also been making music as a singer and guitarist for decades.

The Bright Side of the Doom is the prequel to his sons's diary The 18-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared.

The prequel starts with first memories during the Nazi era and ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Both stories are based on facts. To be continued…

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