The broken house : growing up under Hitler /
by Kruger, Horst; Whiteside, Shaun.
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BookPublisher: London : The Bodley Head, 2021Description: 256 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781847926340 (hbk.) :; 1847926347 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 943.086 KRUUniform titles: Zerbrochene Haus. English.Subject(s): Kruger, Horst, 1919-1999 -- Childhood and youth | History | History | Germany | Autobiography: historical, political & military | Autobiography: literary | Memoirs | European history | Germany -- History -- 1933-1945Summary: In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the horrific details of the Holocaust executed by 'ordinary men' still living in their midst. The trial sent Kruger back to his childhood in the 1930s, in an attempt to understand 'how it really was, that incomprehensible time'. Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, 'The Broken House' is a moving coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis.
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| 943.086 HAN Disobeying Hitler : German resistance in the last year of WWII / | 943.086 KER The Nazi dictatorship: | 943.086 KNO Hitler's children | 943.086 KRU The broken house : growing up under Hitler / | 943.086 MOM Alternatives to Hitler: | 943.086 ORB The plots against Hitler / | 943.086 PRI The master plan: Himmler's scholars and the Holocaust |
Translated from the German.
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the horrific details of the Holocaust executed by 'ordinary men' still living in their midst. The trial sent Kruger back to his childhood in the 1930s, in an attempt to understand 'how it really was, that incomprehensible time'. Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, 'The Broken House' is a moving coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis.
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