Witnesses of War: Children's Life under the Nazis
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Witnesses of War: Children's Life under the Nazis
19.99 €
15.99 €
The book by Nicholas Stargardt, an Oxford professor and one of the most respected historians of Nazism, is a unique study that for the first time presents the social history of Nazi Germany through the eyes of children. The serious historical work is based on original documents - diaries of teenagers, school assignments, children's drawings from the Jewish ghetto Theresienstadt and a German village in the Black Forest, letters from evacuation camps, correctional institutions, psychiatric asylums, letters to fathers at the front and even memories of children's games. The book's characters include a Czech-Jewish boy from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, a German teenager from East Prussia, two Jewish girls from the Warsaw Ghetto, a German schoolgirl from a socialist family in Berlin, two teenagers from the Hitler Youth, and a Jewish boy from Lodz. Prof. Stargardt argues that memories of Nazi Germany divided children into two groups: those who perceived life there as normal and those for whom it was terrifying. This is why the exact events they remembered are of utmost importance. The author shatters stereotypes about victimhood and trauma to tell us compelling personal stories, the stories of the generation Hitler created.
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