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Synopsis
"Finding Margaret's father leads to Nazi intrigue" is the true story of Margaret's biological Father. Margaret was born in Amsterdam the Netherlands, then immigrated, when she was three years old, to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.After the Second World War, in May 1945, her mother met a Canadian soldier and they married in the spring of 1946? and after that he returned to Canada, to arrange living quarters for his family. Then in the fall of 1946 Margaret's mother, including the two little girls, immigrated to join him.In the spring of 1950, Margaret, her mother and sister, traveled to the Netherlands for a summer holiday. It was getting close to Christmas when a stranger called her grandparent's house in Hague and demanded to see Wilhelm Bauer's wife. Because they did not know this one they never invited him in, only told him to go away. He became loud and swore that he would return, then left. After that incident her mother, maybe because she was afraid of what this might do, wanted to leave the Netherlands. They departed from Liverpool England on December 30, 1950 on the RMS "ASCANIA", and arrived in Halifax, Canada on January 8, 1951. After that episode, they did not return to the Netherlands for over twenty-five years, and never saw her parents again.Many years later Margaret Bruce Eekma they lived in a large apartment, which had a laundry room. Margaret, while doing her laundry, was talking to a neighbor who she was from the Netherlands, had married a Canadian soldier, and immigrated to Canada as a war bride. "What a coincidence", Margaret told her, "My mother is so Dutch, who therefore came to Canada as a bride." This neighbor looked at Margaret and asked her what, what she said on the 31st of August 1943. She said it was not possible for her to be a daughter of a Canadian soldier, because they did not arrive in the Netherlands until Liberation Day May 7, 1945. Margaret was shocked because she had never thought about this, A couple of months later while visiting friends, Margaret mentioned what this neighbor had said about her father. To her surprise, they said they were immigrated to Canada after they returned from their holidays in the Netherlands. This news devastated her because now there were two people telling her that she called dad, what maybe not her dad. They were saying that they had loved each other, what they were doing, what a secret.The next day Margaret went to her parent's house, who were on vacation, to search for some papers. She felt it better to do so, plus she was afraid of what she might find. Margaret looking for some pictures of her husband and wife to confirm when they got married.Dirty rumors. Her biggest wish was that her mother would get mad at her. However, when she arrived at the house, her mother was furious with Margaret for her private papers and gave her no explanation about her birth.Not long after that, because Margaret felt sorry for having made her mother so angry, she returned to have a private discussion. She told me later that she'll never forget the expression on her mother's face. Willie, and that Margaret had been conceived out of a loving relationship. Margaret's mother may have been treated like many other Dutch girls who had children from German soldiers. Because after the was, as punishment, they had their heads shaven by roaming the streets, who when the job was completed would dump a human excrement on their heads and parade them around town. So, if Margaret would have stayed in the Netherlands, "Born Wrong" (fout born) a label which would have hampered her getting an education or job. But she was in Canada and spared all the unpleasantness that happened over there.However, we were still curious and wanted to know why Margaret's mother never wanted to talk about Wilhelm Bauer. We even contacted the German Red Cross, but with only a name and nothing else this was impossible. Then on a trip through Europe we found some documents and we were astonished at what we foun