Download or read book WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF A GERMAN CHILD written by Reinhold Pflugfelder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, the author intersperses his own WW II experiences as a young boy in Germany with the story of the war’s history— on both Eastern and Western battle fronts. Young Reinhold, born in 1937, was raised in Gottwollshausen, a small village in southern Germany, during the course of this war. After the Nazis drafted his father into the German army and sent him to the Russian front, Reinhold and his family—mother and two older brothers—experience the terror of Hitler and his Nazi regime, along with day and night air raids and bombings, followed by artillery attacks by the advancing Allied troops. In lieu of a normal, carefree childhood, Reinhold experiences the angst of a raging war right at his doorstep. Reinhold’s father survives the hardships of the war in Russia for three years, only to meet with a tragic end in the last week of the war. This memoir highlights the brutal and sadistic practices of Hitler and his Nazis.
Download or read book Last Witnesses written by Svetlana Alexievich and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterpiece” (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize–winning writer, an oral history of children’s experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Alexievich’s collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. They had sometimes been soldiers as well as witnesses, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded—a trauma that would change the course of the Russian nation. Collectively, this symphony of children’s stories, filled with the everyday details of life in combat, reveals an altogether unprecedented view of the war. Alexievich gives voice to those whose memories have been lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history from the personal and private experiences of individuals. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Last Witnesses is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. Praise for Last Witnesses “There is a special sort of clear-eyed humility to [Alexievich’s] reporting.”—The Guardian “A bracing reminder of the enduring power of the written word to testify to pain like no other medium. . . . Children survive, they grow up, and they do not forget. They are the first and last witnesses.”—The New Republic “A profound triumph.”—The Big Issue “[Alexievich] excavates and briefly gives prominence to demolished lives and eradicated communities. . . . It is impossible not to turn the page, impossible not to wonder whom we next might meet, impossible not to think differently about children caught in conflict.”—The Washington Post
Download or read book The Hitler Years Through the Eyes of a Child written by Charlotte Self and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a young German girl grew up to be a Resistance worker under her mother's careful watch in the Hitler Years of WWII.
Download or read book From Stonischken to Gedhus written by Gerda Braunheim and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German War Child written by Christa Blum Mercer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History from life experience. The OTHER side of World War II through the eyes and ears of an Aryan child, who cheered Hitler before he ruined her life. A collection of short stories about a child from Kiel who suffered the ravages of war on her home, school, and, most of all, her family. Vintage photos by the Blum family.
Download or read book English Girl German Boy written by Tessa Börner and published by Hilary Borner. This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through The Eyes Of Innocents written by Emmy E Werner and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account of the horrors World War II inflicted upon children around the world, based on journals, diaries, and letters.
Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Kathryn Olmstead and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Don t Say Anything to Anybody written by Brigitte Z. Yearman and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless World War II memoirs have been written, but few offer the German civilian perspective. Brigitte Z. Yearman's evocative survival memoir provides that fresh voice. Young Brigitte knows nothing of the politics of war. All she knows is that the conflict has separated her from her family and taken her father away to fight. When her hometown becomes a bombing target, Brigitte is transported to the rural town of Seidel. Her foster family openly opposes the Nazi regime, but when the war ends, that isn't enough to save them from new troubles brought by Allied troops. Russian soldiers and Polish settlers occupy Seidel, and Brigitte and her foster family are forced to leave. As refugees they embark on a harrowing life-or-death journey to safety in West Germany. Brigitte is determined to find and restore whatever is left of her biological family. That quest will forever change her understanding of home, peace, and personal identity. This tale of courage and compassion tells a poignant story about a resilient and resourceful girl coming of age during extremely troubled times. Along the way, she must learn to balance her longing for restoration with an acknowledgment that some wounds never heal.
Download or read book The German Aces Speak written by Colin D. Heaton and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVFor the first time, four German WWII pilots share their side of the story./divDIV/divDIVFew perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the WWII fighter pilot was viewed as larger than life: a dashing soul waging war amongst the clouds. In the sixty-five-plus years since the Allied victory, stories of these pilots’ heroics have never been in short supply. But what about their adversaries—the highly skilled German aviators who pushed the Allies to the very brink of defeat?/divDIV/divDIVOf all of the Luftwaffe’s fighter aces, the stories of Walter Krupinski, Adolf Galland, Eduard Neumann, and Wolfgang Falck shine particularly bright. In The German Aces Speak, for the first time in any book, these four prominent and influential Luftwaffe fighter pilots reminisce candidly about their service in World War II. Personally interviewed by author and military historian Colin Heaton, they bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war, their battles, their lives, and, perhaps most importantly, how they felt about serving under the Nazi leadership of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. From thrilling air battles to conflicts on the ground with their own commanders, the aces’ memories disclose a side of World War II that has gone largely unseen by the American public: the experience of the German pilot./div/div
Download or read book Orderly and Humane written by R. M. Douglas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: “a major achievement” (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless. In this authoritative and objective account, historian R.M. Douglas examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the forced migrations were conceived, planned, and executed, and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The first comprehensive history of this immense manmade catastrophe, Orderly and Humane is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing." It may also be the most significant untold story of the World War II.
Download or read book World War II Through Polish Eyes written by M. B. Szonert and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertwining the fate of a country with the life of one Polish family, this book tells the story of a Polish girl who attempted to outwit the Nazis and the Soviets. The events are true and based on extensive oral accounts of the participants and documents released only in Polish and never before available in English, including original Auschwitz letters and Nazi exhumation documents.
Download or read book World War II written by Vera Steppeler and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few rare books give us insight into the lives of ordinary German citizens caught up in the maelstrom that swept Europe in World War II. Such is this new work by Vera Steppeler: the stark tale of her young self, saved from sudden death by the slimmest of chances; emerging from a bomb shelter to find her entire neighborhood flattened, a journey in wagons intended for animals, and other harrowing adventures. Steppeler has succeeded brilliantly in channeling her own youthful observations, never burdening the narrative with ponderous analysis. Steppeler's odyssey pauses in West Germany with love and a young husband yearning to emigrate to America, a move to Canada in 1961, and then in 1964 to America. "For those of us who lived through such an experience, the idea of war as a way of resolving conflict is unimaginable," says Steppeler. She is also the author of the novel The Love Trap: On My Mother's Grave, published in 2013.
Download or read book A Child s War written by Kati David and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal wartime remembrances by fifteen European children--sons and daughters of Jews, Nazis, collaborators, and resistance fighters.
Download or read book Frederike Helwig Kriegskinder written by Frederike Helwig and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What were my parents doing when they were as old as my son is today? What made them what they are today?" These questions are examined by the photographer Frederike Helwig in her book Kriegskinder (Children of War). People who were born in the late 1930s and early 1940s, who grew up during World War II, are now in their eighth decade of life. They look back, some of them speaking for the first time ever about what marked them: bombs, fleeing, fear, hunger, illness, death, missing fathers, overwhelmed mothers--as well as the speechlessness of the post-war era, when memories of the war and its intergenerational consequences were supposed to be forgotten. The forty-five haunting portraits--all of them taken recently with an analog camera--are contrasted with the narratives of childhood experiences told by eyewitnesses. This makes Kriegskinder a portrait of a generation whose memories will soon disappear with them.Exhibition: 2.2.-8.4.2018, f3 - freiraum für fotografie, Berlin
Download or read book Moral Combat written by Michael Burleigh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 1197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magnificent. . . . Seldom has a study of the past combined such erudition with such exuberance." —The Guardian "No-one with an interest in the Second World War should be without this book; and indeed nor should anyone who cares about how our world has come about." —The Daily Telegraph Pre-eminent WWII historian Michael Burleigh delivers a brilliant new examination of the day-to-day moral crises underpinning the momentous conflicts of the Second World War. A magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and internationally bestselling The Third Reich, winner of the Samuel Johnson prize, Moral Combat offers a unique and riveting look at, in the words of The Times (London), "not just the war planners faced with the prospect of bombing Dresden or the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also the individuals working at the coalface of war, killing or murdering, resisting or collaborating."
Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Child Before During and After WWII in Poland written by Martyna Parsons and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies and Memoirs Women: Through the Eyes of a Child Before, During and After WW2 In Poland (True Story) The present is WW2. Martyna describes in detail the images before her as she sees them. She tries to understand the horrors of life during the war. There are situations and happenings no child should have to face and see. Never the less Martyna copes as best as her young being allows, always hopeful for a better outcome. All around her hardships, deprivations and death takes its toll, but the will to survive ever present. Occasionally, the girl escapes the sad images before her and runs into the quietness and beauty of the forest where she finds solace. The climax and fighting towards the end of WWII sees Martyna and other children rob the dead bodies of German soldiers of money and jewellery. This will help the families of live, later once WW2 is over. Tags: biographies and memoirs women, biographies and memoirs of women, biographies and memoirs, history europe eastern, europe, history women in history, history eastern europe, true story, world war 2 true stories, Women Memoirs: Through the Eyes of a Child Before, During and After WW2 In Poland, Biographies and Memoirs Women, world war 2 survivors, world war 2, world war II, WW2, stories from world war 2, world war 2 stories, WWII true stories, WWII stories, WW2 stories, World War 2 stories,
