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1 online resource (xv, 356 pages) : illustrations |
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War from the sky: Dresden, Saxony / Ingrid Frohberg -- Kassel, Hesse / Hubertus Thiel -- Wurzburg, Bavaria / Wolf Staglich -- Leuna, Saxony / Rita Nille -- Arneburg, Saxony-Anhalt / Ingrid Nille -- Berlin / Christa Glowalla -- Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palitinate / Siegrid Meyer -- Koln, Northrhine-Westphalia / Karl Kremer -- Westerburg, Rhineland-palatinate / Ina Hesse -- Remagen, Rhineland-Palatinate / Hans Herzmann -- War on the ground: Landau, Lower Silesia (Poland) / Annelies Sorofka -- Gut Borowki, Wartheland (Poland) / Bernd Heinrich -- Domnau, East Prussia (Poland) / Karl Brach -- Konigsberg, East Prussia (Russia) / Irmgard Broweleit -- Ortelsburg, East Prussia (Poland) / Arnold Bieber -- Stuhm, East Prussia (Poland) / Goetz Oertel -- Weisstein, Upper Silesia (Poland) / Fred Rother -- Posen, Wartheland (Poland) / Dieter Hahn -- Potsdam, Brandenburg Arnim Kruger -- Berlin / Helgard Seifert -- Wuppertal, Northrhine-Westfalia / Erich Abshoff -- Wollup, Brandenburg / Johann Koppe -- Other dimensions of war: Komotau, Czech Republic / Heinz Loquai -- Prague, Czech Republic / Hans-Peter Haupt -- Eilenburg, Saxony-Anhalt / Etta Krecker -- Zwickau, Saxony / Regina Demetrio |
| Summary |
One survivor tells of the fire bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes. These are typical in the stories collected in The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II . For this book Wolfgang W.E. Samuel, a childhood refugee himself after the fall of Nazi Germany, interviewed twenty-seven men and women who as children--by chance and sheer resilience--survived Allied bombs, invading armies, hunger, and chaos. "Our eyes carri |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany
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Children and war -- Germany
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
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Children -- Germany -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Children
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Children and war
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054658
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Personal narratives
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
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| ISBN |
9781604731378 |
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1604731370 |
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