 He later emigrated to Canada, working in several British Columbia sawmills.He then moved to the US, where, living in San Diego, he became a Greyhound long-distance bus driver.During the 1950s and 1960s, Alfons Heck remained silent about his wartime activities and his involvement in the Hitler Youth, but he read hundreds of books about the Third Reich, tracing the lives of surviving Nazi leaders and maintaining an interest in West German politics.