Nightmares of an East Prussian Childhood

2013-04-12 History

Author : Ilse Stritzke
Release : 2013-04-12
Genre : History
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Download or read book Nightmares of an East Prussian Childhood written by Ilse Stritzke. This book was released on 2013-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents. That decision cost her family dearly in wartorn Europe, 1945. Ilse grew up on a small farm, with a wonderful family, the woods as a playground and the beaches of the Baltic. Then turmoil followed the German defeat by the Russians and the subsequent occupation. In 31 months under the Russians, Ilse's family is driven from their home, she mourns her missing father, witnesses her mother's rape, sees her grandparents and baby brother succumb to the brutal conditions, and hears of her oldest sister's capture and death in a work prison. Fighting starvation, Ilse crafts ways to coexist with the Russians, scavenging, begging and stealing to help the family survive.

Forgotten Land

2011-11-08 History

Author : Max Egremont
Release : 2011-11-08
Genre : History
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Download or read book Forgotten Land written by Max Egremont. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In Forgotten Land, Max Egremont offers a vivid account of this region and its people through the stories of individuals who were intimately involved in and transformed by its tumultuous history, as well as accounts of his own travels and interviews he conducted along the way. Forgotten Land is a story of historical identity and character, told through intimate portraits of people and places. It is a unique examination of the layers of history, of the changing perceptions and myths of homeland, of virtue and of wickedness, and of how a place can still overwhelm those who left it years before.

Childhood in Germany During World War II

1988 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Karla O. Poewe
Release : 1988
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Childhood in Germany During World War II written by Karla O. Poewe. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today a distinguished anthropologist, Karla Poewe was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, in 1941. In this autobiography, she tells of her early life as a vagrant refugee pursued by Russian armies and Allied bombs during World War II.

Ruined by the Reich

2015-08-31 History

Author : Christel Weiss Brandenburg
Release : 2015-08-31
Genre : History
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Download or read book Ruined by the Reich written by Christel Weiss Brandenburg. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were Nazi sympathizers still persists. This book follows the story of the Weiss family in East Prussia from World War I to the end of World War II. It is told from the point of view not of the victors but of the vanquished. Beginning with the good citizenship trap Hitler set for law-abiding German families, the book describes how Germany first prospered and then fell to ruin with the Third Reich. The people traded their freedoms for a national security, which quickly turned to tyranny with swift consequences for "disobedience." Like Christel's brothers (soldiers and members of Hitler's Youth), propaganda-fed children all over the Reich believed the highly idealized depiction of their roles and of their nation's victims. This fascinating and richly detailed memoir is told through the intimate narration of a woman who grew up in the midst of turmoil, experienced poverty and prejudice, witnessed the deaths of many loved ones, and was driven from her home by the Soviet Army. The combination of domestic details and vivid historical descriptions creates an unusual book as absorbing as it is educational.

World Literature Today

1980 Bibliography

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Release : 1980
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