Tearing the silence : being German in America

Hegi, Ursula, author.

Book 1997

The bestselling author of "Stones from the River" breaks the silence which has haunted the lives of postwar German immigrants to tell the one story of the Holocaust readers have not been privy to--the legacy of shame and grief that shadows a people that can neither escape nor embrace its national heritage.

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German Americans Interviews

Germany History 1945-1990

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Germany Influence

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence

United States Ethnic relations

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 Children Biography

World War, 1939-1945 Children Germany Biography

World War, 1939-1945 Germany

World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, German

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ISBN:

9780684829968
0684829967

Description:

302 pages ; 25 cm

Target Audience Note:

750L Lexile

Notes:

Nonfiction Core Collection (H.W. Wilson): Archival Materials

Contents:

pt. 1. Ursula: Tearing the Silence
part 2. The Interviews. Johanna: The Longing for One Leader. Ulrich: It Is at Least My Responsibility to Be Aware. Anneliese: I Don't Want to Know. Karl: I'm a Chameleon. Eva: Just Because I'm German Doesn't Mean I Am a Nazi. Hans-Peter: It's My Heritage
Yet I Had No Say in It. Sigrid: A Talent for Adapting. Joachim: During Hitler's Time You Would Have Been Shot for That. Kurt: Am I the Product of a Rape? Marika: I Need to Survive Again. Heinrich: Playing in Bomb Craters. Beate: Small Talk. Gisela: The Making of the Beast. Jurgen: Why Should So Many People Come and Change Our Culture? Katharina: When Germans and Jews Can Talk

LCCN:

97007279

Control Number:

68600

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