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Four Germanys: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family - A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family (Paperback)
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Four Germanys: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family - A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family (Paperback)
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In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House
that Giacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through
whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of
Germany through the long twentieth century. Each chapter of Four
Germanys is reflective of generational rather than historical time.
In 1922, Edwin Schorcht inherited his family farm, and in Part One,
Pitkin traces the derivation of this farmstead. Part Two focuses on
Schorcht's children who came of age in Hitler's Germany. Part Three
has the Schorchts growing up in the Ulbricht years (1950-73) of the
German Democratic Republic. The book concludes with the
great-granddaughter, Maria, looking back to the past in relation to
the new Germany that history had bequeathed her. Ultimately, Four
Germanys reflects the impact of critical historical events on
ordinary East Germans while it also reveals how one particular
family managed its own historical adaptation to these events.
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