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The Broken House - Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece (Hardcover)
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The Broken House - Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that
provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In
1965, journalist Horst Krüger 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. The
trial sent Krüger back to his childhood in the 1930s, in an
attempt to understand 'how it really was, that incomprehensible
time'. He had grown up in a Berlin suburb. Here, people lived
ordinary, non-political lives, believed in God and obeyed the law,
but were gradually seduced and intoxicated by the promises of
Nazism. He had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who
were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been
able to do their work'. This world of respectability, order and
duty began to crumble when tragedy struck. Step by step, a family
that had fallen under the spell of Nazism was destroyed by it.
Originally published in Germany in 1966 but out of print for
decades, this moving and tragic portrait of family life under the
Nazis is now available for the first time to UK readers. 'The book
that broke the silence... the writing glowers from the page -
sorrowful, disbelieving, chastened and yet not without hope'
Observer 'Extraordinary... compelling' Mail on Sunday 'Exquisitely
written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the
sense of a life broken forever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times
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