| Description |
1 online resource (452 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction by Deborah Rosenthal; Part I -- Downfall; 1. War Came to Us; 2. Days of Rout; 3. Capture; Part II -- Captivity; 4. Days of Hunger; 5. A Prison Camp in France; 6. Live Cargo for Germany; 7. Stalag II B, a Concentration Camp for War Prisoners in Pomerania; Part III -- Forced Labor; A) A PRISON FARM ON THE POLISH BORDER; 8. Fall; 9. Winter; B) A PRISON CAMP IN A BIG HARBOUR; 10. Bound for Nowhere on a Banana Freighter; 11. Life around the Kommondofiihrer; 12. Life around the Lagerfübrer; 13. The Vertrauensmann |
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14. Nazi Propaganda in the Camp15. The Prisoners; 16. Distractions and Intellectual Life; 17. 87,461: Justice of the Peace; 18. Letters, Packages and Red Cross Gifts; 19. Night Life on SS. Nordenham; 20. Story and Midnight Trial of a Barber; 21. My Last Kommandofiihrer; Part IV -- Escape; 22. Exit One Kriegsgefangene; 23. Veillee D'Armes; 24. Berlin Express; 25. In the Shade of Swastika Blossoms; 26. With Thanks to the German Police; 27. Reserved Quarters; 28. A Sick City; 29. The Last Border; Afterword by Jacqueline Hélion |
| Summary |
A daring story of imprisonment and escape under the Nazi regime and a moving and engrossing symbol of resilience and integrity. The French painter Jean Hélion's unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner of war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion's infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run,?They shall not have me!" but are quickly |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987.
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| SUBJECT |
Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987 fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rosenthal, Deborah
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Hélion, Jacqueline
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| ISBN |
9781628724059 |
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1628724056 |
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