Witnesses of war. Children's lives under the Nazis.
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The book by Nicholas Stargardt, an Oxford professor and one of the most authoritative historians of Nazism, is a unique study that presents the social history of Nazi Germany through the eyes of children for the first time. This serious historical work is based on original documents such as teenagers' diaries, school assignments, children's drawings from the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt and a German village in the Black Forest, letters from evacuation camps, correctional facilities, psychiatric asylums, letters to fathers at the front, and even memories of childhood games. The book features characters such as a Czech-Jewish boy from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, a German teenager from East Prussia, two Jewish girls from the Warsaw Ghetto, a German schoolgirl from a socialist family in Berlin, two teenagers from the Hitler Youth, and a Jewish boy from Lodz.
Professor Stargardt argues that memories of Nazi Germany divided children into two groups: those who perceived life in it as normal, and those for whom it evoked horror. This is why the precise events they remembered hold immense significance. The author dismantles stereotypes of victimhood and trauma to tell us gripping personal stories, the stories of a generation created by Hitler.
Author:
Author:Stargardt Nicholas
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Children's Book
Dimensions:
Dimensions:24.2x17x2.8 cm
Series:
Series:History of Wars and Military Art
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-22610-4
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