Ruined house. My youth under Hitler
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The impartial portrait of ordinary Germans from the time of the Third Reich.
"Book of Germany without a lie" according to the main German literary critic Marseille Reich-Rinitsky.
In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger visited the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt, where there was a trial over 22 former camp guards guilty of an extermination of about a million people - old people, women and children.
This court became a reason for Krueger to recall his childhood and youth in the 1930s, when the Nazi regime gained strength. He grew up in a quiet one -story suburb of Berlin, where they lived a measured everyday life, where they observed the law and believed in God. He was a typical child of respectable apolitical Germans who were never Nazis - but without whom the Nazis could not have committed their atrocities. Gradually, step by step, Hitler"s regime destroys the country, and with this - the family of Kruger himself.
originally published in 1966, the destroyed house is a painful and at the same time bold attempt to raise issues of collective injury, memory and responsibility. Skillfully written and providing the author of literary glory, the book shows "The Spirit of Time" and draws an impartial portrait of a generation during the Third Reich. Horst Kruger punishes compatriots to look vigilly into the darkness inside: "This Hitler, he will stay with us - for life.
The book that destroyed the German "wall of silence". The era of growing lies, unbridled sentimentalism and moral baseness in it is described without a shadow of self -pity. Honest memoirs showing how "good Germans" became silent accomplices of terror.
Times
skillfully written ... A rare book can so accurately catch a feeling of broken life under the yoke of injury and guilt.
Sunday Times
"Book of Germany without a lie" according to the main German literary critic Marseille Reich-Rinitsky.
In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger visited the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt, where there was a trial over 22 former camp guards guilty of an extermination of about a million people - old people, women and children.
This court became a reason for Krueger to recall his childhood and youth in the 1930s, when the Nazi regime gained strength. He grew up in a quiet one -story suburb of Berlin, where they lived a measured everyday life, where they observed the law and believed in God. He was a typical child of respectable apolitical Germans who were never Nazis - but without whom the Nazis could not have committed their atrocities. Gradually, step by step, Hitler"s regime destroys the country, and with this - the family of Kruger himself.
originally published in 1966, the destroyed house is a painful and at the same time bold attempt to raise issues of collective injury, memory and responsibility. Skillfully written and providing the author of literary glory, the book shows "The Spirit of Time" and draws an impartial portrait of a generation during the Third Reich. Horst Kruger punishes compatriots to look vigilly into the darkness inside: "This Hitler, he will stay with us - for life.
The book that destroyed the German "wall of silence". The era of growing lies, unbridled sentimentalism and moral baseness in it is described without a shadow of self -pity. Honest memoirs showing how "good Germans" became silent accomplices of terror.
Times
skillfully written ... A rare book can so accurately catch a feeling of broken life under the yoke of injury and guilt.
Sunday Times
Author:
Author:Крюгер Хорст
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Religion & Spiritually
- Category:Magazines & Encyclopedia
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-155204-6
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