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Broken Lives - How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century (Hardcover)
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Broken Lives - How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century (Hardcover)
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The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World
War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery,
reunification, and rehabilitation Broken Lives is a gripping
account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of
ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were
scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did. Drawing
on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the
1920s, Konrad Jarausch chronicles the unforgettable stories of
people who not only lived through the Third Reich, World War II,
the Holocaust, and Cold War partition, but also participated in
Germany's astonishing postwar recovery, reunification, and
rehabilitation. Written decades after the events, these
testimonies, many of them unpublished, look back on the mistakes of
young people caught up in the Nazi movement. In many, early
enthusiasm turns to deep disillusionment as the price of complicity
with a brutal dictatorship--fighting at the front, aerial
bombardment at home, murder in the concentration camps-becomes
clear. Bringing together the voices of men and women, perpetrators
and victims, Broken Lives reveals the intimate human details of
historical events and offers new insights about persistent
questions. Why did so many Germans support Hitler through years of
wartime sacrifice and Nazi inhumanity? How did they finally
distance themselves from this racist dictatorship and come to
embrace human rights? Jarausch argues that this generation's focus
on its own suffering, often maligned by historians, ultimately led
to a more critical understanding of national identity-one that
helped transform Germany from a military aggressor into a pillar of
European democracy. The result is a powerful account of the
everyday experiences and troubling memories of average Germans who
journeyed into, through, and out of the abyss of a dark century.
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