History of Von Schatt (1913-1960)

The man, the monster... This is the origin story of the von Schatt family, from the abandonment of its patriarch, Heinrich, on the steps of an orphanage in prewar Germany, through his apprenticeship on the high seas with the salty drunken smuggler Captain Hosenpinkel, to his flight from the Nazis to Sweden, the kidnapping of his child bride to America with the assistance of the Sicilian mafia, his ascent to becoming the most feared Captain in the US military troop transport fleet, his...
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The man, the monster... This is the origin story of the von Schatt family, from the abandonment of its patriarch, Heinrich, on the steps of an orphanage in prewar Germany, through his apprenticeship on the high seas with the salty drunken smuggler Captain Hosenpinkel, to his flight from the Nazis to Sweden, the kidnapping of his child bride to America with the assistance of the Sicilian mafia, his ascent to becoming the most feared Captain in the US military troop transport fleet, his concurrent role as husband and father of two dysfunctional Long Island families, and his lifelong obsession to discover the secret of a set of coordinates he'd found written on an old map.