It might have been that november night in 1944 when his rifle platoon took a wrong turn in a small wood in alsace .
事情可能是发生在1944年11月的一个晚上,当他的步枪排在阿尔萨斯一个小树林里走错路的时候。
His father was a successful industrialist from alsace ( which had fallen to the germans after the franco-prussian war in 1870-71 ) , supplying him with an unusually handsome income for a man of his rank .
More notably , the french region of alsace is similar to germany in its food ( sauerkraut is popular ) and wine , partly due to it currently bordering on germany and partly due to it having been part of germany at various points in its history ( the border has moved back and forth with various wars ) .