Requiem for a German Past : A Boyhood Among the Nazis. [Kristallnacht; Boy Soldier; St. Mary's Tower; Death Enters; Baptism by Fire; In Battle; Farewell to Arms; The Search; Requiem; etc]
by Herbst, Jurgen. [painting, Ottot Bücher]
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Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1999., 1999. Very Good. [2nd printing] ; xvi, 234 pp. : illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0299164144 (pbk.) LCCN: 99-18490 ; OCLC: 40830179 ; LC: DD247.H365 ; Dewey: 940.54/8243 ; stiff photographic paper wrappers ; "Jurgen Herbst's account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 19 28 to 1948 is a boy's experience of anti-Semitism and militarism from the inside. Herbst was a middle class boy in a Lutheran family that saw value in Prussian military ideals and a mythic German past. His memoir is a compelling, understated tale of moral awakening" ; VG
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- Requiem for a German Past : A Boyhood Among the Nazis. [Kristallnacht; Boy Soldier; St. Mary's Tower; Death Enters; Baptism by Fire; In Battle; Farewell to Arms; The Search; Requiem; etc]
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- Herbst, Jurgen. [painting, Ottot Bücher]
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- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
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- 1999
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- Youth -- Germany -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German. jurgen herbst jungvolk rodewald hannover schleswig Abitur Adolf Hitler afternoon arms army asked aunt battle began Bodo Wacker boys Braunschweig British camp Chemnitz cla
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