As a young boy growing up in a small town in Germany, Peter Wilhelm Hoffman recalls what happened to his life and to his family under the Hitler regime. In a compelling look inside life before and after Hitler’s war, the author witnessed Hilter’s “SS”, dressed in black, rush into their home, put guns to his mother’s head and took this father away to fight in Hitler’s Army.

"Not Too Long Ago" was triggered by a more recent event here in America, when government agents, with guns drawn, burst into a home in Miami, capturing a small child named Elian Gonzalez.

This is a story that will touch the lives of everyone, from the zig-zag ditches used by the small children in Benrath to hide from the bombs to Peter’s journey to America.