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My Father´s Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
Stephan Lebert
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Description for My Father´s Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
Paperback. * Introduction by Daniel Goldhagen, author HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS. * With TV series such as Hitler's Henchman, The World at War, Hitler's Women - interest in WWII has never been higher. Num Pages: 256 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 166. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
There are and always have been ways of escaping one's own past. But there are some who have never had this chance: the children of prominent Nazis. On one hand they have the memories of the nice, kind man who was their father, on the other they are confronted with the facts of history: with the madness, the murders, the personal purgatory. The Leberts, father and son, spoke at an interval of forty years - 1959 and 1999 - to these men and women who bore a tainted name and were crushed by the burden of the ... Read more
There are and always have been ways of escaping one's own past. But there are some who have never had this chance: the children of prominent Nazis. On one hand they have the memories of the nice, kind man who was their father, on the other they are confronted with the facts of history: with the madness, the murders, the personal purgatory. The Leberts, father and son, spoke at an interval of forty years - 1959 and 1999 - to these men and women who bore a tainted name and were crushed by the burden of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349114576
SKU
KKD0001441
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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99-1
About Stephan Lebert
NORBERT LEBERT worked as journalist and freelance writer in Munich after WW2. His son, STEPHAN LEBERT, was born in 1961 and is managing editor of TAGES-SPIEGEL in Berlin. He has been awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize.
Reviews for My Father´s Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders - An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
Fascinating.
Professor Eric Hobsbawm
Highly interesting ... what emerges not only casts light on the mentality and psychology of "Nazi children" in later life, but also on the wider issue of lingering trauma of the Third Reich.
Professor Ian Kershaw
MY FATHER'S KEEPER is a worthwhile read.
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
It is an absorbing ... Read more
Professor Eric Hobsbawm
Highly interesting ... what emerges not only casts light on the mentality and psychology of "Nazi children" in later life, but also on the wider issue of lingering trauma of the Third Reich.
Professor Ian Kershaw
MY FATHER'S KEEPER is a worthwhile read.
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
It is an absorbing ... Read more