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My Father's Country
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

My Father's Country

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-11-10
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  • Publisher: Random House

In August 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his part in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of 20 July, images of her father in the Third Reich People's Court appeared on the screen - and she realises she never knew him. In My Father's Country, Bruhns tells of her search for her father. Returning to her ancestral home in Halberstadt, Northern Germany, she retraces her family's story from Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of World War Two, discovering old photographs, letters and diaries, which she uses to piece together a unique and unforgettable family epic.

Meines Vaters Land
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 382

Meines Vaters Land

Am 26. August 1944 wird der Abwehroffizier Hans Georg Klamroth wegen Hochverrats hingerichtet. Jahrzehnte später sieht seine jüngste Tochter in einer Fernsehdokumentation über den 20. Juli Bilder ihres Vaters aufgenommen während des Prozesses im Volksgerichtshof. Ein Anblick, der Wibke Bruhns nicht mehr loslässt. Wer war dieser Mann, den sie kaum kannte, der fremde Vater, der ihr plötzlich so nah ist. Die lange Suche nach seiner, ja auch ihrer eigenen Geschichte führt sie zurück in die Vergangenheit: Die Klamroths sind eine angesehene großbürgerliche Kaufmannsfamilie und muten wie ein Halberstädter Pendant zu den Buddenbrooks an. Unzählige Fotos, Briefe und Tagebücher sind der Fundus für ein einzigartiges Familienepos.

Nachrichtenzeit
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 322

Nachrichtenzeit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-01
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  • Publisher: Knaur eBook

Wibke Bruhns war eine der bedeutendsten deutschen Journalistinnen. 1938 in Halberstadt geboren, machte sie schon früh Karriere beim Fernsehen und wurde 1971 beim ZDF die erste Nachrichtensprecherin der Bundesrepublik. Damals eine Sensation und ein ungeheuerlicher Skandal. Doch ihre Leidenschaft war die politische Berichterstattung. Was auch immer passierte: Wibke Bruhns war ganz nahe am Zeitgeschehen – und an den Persönlichkeiten, die die bundesdeutsche Geschichte prägten. Ob die Studentenproteste 1968, der Aufstieg und Fall Willy Brandts, der Skandal um die vermeintlichen Hitlertagebücher oder der Mauerfall – Wibke Bruhns' Erinnerungen sind das Zeugnis eines illustren Lebens und ein bestechend frischer Blick auf die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik.

Memory Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Memory Matters

Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter of Jewish émigrés (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Dückers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of inspiration, reverberation, refraction, incongruity, and ambiguity. Focusing on genealogies of women, the bo...

Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic

An opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s and examines shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation."--BOOK JACKET.

A Jew in the New Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

A Jew in the New Germany

Henryk Broder, one of the most controversial and engaging writers in Germany today, has been a thorn in the side of the Establishment for thirty years. The son of two Polish Holocaust survivors, Broder is not only a trenchant political critic and observant social essayist but an invaluable chronicler of the Jewish experience in late twentieth-century Germany. This volume collects eighteen of Broder's essays, translated for the first time into English. The first was written in 1979 and the most recent deals with the post-9/11 realities of the war on terrorism, and its effects on the countries of Europe. Other essays address the debate over the construction of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the German response to the 1991 Gulf War, the politics of German reunification, and the rise of the new German nationalism. Broder charts the recent evolution of German Jewish relations, using his own outsider status to hold up a mirror to the German people and point out that things have not changed for German Jews as much as non-Jews might think.

Le pays de mon père
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 500

Le pays de mon père

Et voilà mon père devant le "Tribunal du peuple" nazi. Droit comme un i, flottant lamentablement dans un costume trop grand pour lui, silencieux. Je regarde fixement cet homme au visage éteint. Je ne le connais pas, il n'existe pas l'ombre d'un souvenir en moi. J'avais tout juste un an lorsque la guerre a commencé. À partir de ce moment, il n'était pour ainsi dire jamais à la maison. Mais je me reconnais en lui - ses yeux sont mes yeux, je sais que je lui ressemble. Et que sais-je de lui ? Rien.

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.

The Inability to Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

The Inability to Love

The Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society’s lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller’s aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that s ideologically and historically fraught.

Family Punishment in Nazi Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Family Punishment in Nazi Germany

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

In the Third Reich, political dissidents were not the only ones liable to be punished for their crimes. Their parents, siblings and relatives also risked reprisals. This concept - known as Sippenhaft – was based in ideas of blood and purity. This definitive study surveys the threats, fears and infliction of this part of the Nazi system of terror.