Description

Von Weizsacker’s Diary is a novella about the last days of World War II, when an American bomber sinks a German submarine in the West Indies. Weeks later, a fishing boat recovers a life raft with two dead men aboard. One of the men is the submarine's captain, Oberleutnant von Weizsacker. A diary is found in a waterproof pouch sewn into von Weizsacker's jacket. The fishing boat captain tosses the diary and other personal effects into a box. He turns the corpses over to the coast guard but doesn’t mention he retrieved any personal effects. Twenty-eight years later, the diary turns up at a Florida flea market and the plot continues...