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Cruel World - The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web (Paperback)
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Cruel World - The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web (Paperback)
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To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a
person but an object, available for use in the service of the
totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power,
policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or
disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and
starvation. Defect-free "good blood" children were subjected to an
"education" based on racism, propaganda, and the glorification of
the Fuhrer, and were deliberately deprived of free time that would
allow independent thought or action.
Once the war began, "Nordic"-looking children were kidnapped from
families in the conquered lands and subjected to "Germanization."
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of "bad blood" children--Jews,
Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians(were separated from their
families and condemned to forced migration, slave labor, sadistic
experiments, starvation, and mass execution. At the end of the war,
uprooted children of every origin wandered the bombed-out cities
and countryside, some having been taken from home at such a young
age that they did not know where they had come from or even their
own names. Millions surged into and out of DP camps, exploited by
political and religious groups, while the Allies and the fledgling
United Nations tried mightily to put families back together and to
find new homes for the orphans.
All the riveting narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that
distinguished Lynn Nicholas's first book, "The Rape of Europa
(winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction),
are present in her study of these terrible crimes against humanity.
To research this story she has delved into the governmental and
militaryarchives of many nations, and has interviewed countless
individuals. She shows the relationship of the deadly Nazi policies
to the brutal tactics used in the USSR in the 1930s and to their
rehearsal in the Spanish Civil War, and vividly describes the
abject failure of Hitler's campaign to plant Germanizing colonies
in the conquered nations. She gives us the stories of survivors of
ghastly war-spawned famines(in Greece and Russia in the 1940s,
Holland in the "Hunger Winter" of 1945, and Berlin in the Airlift
year of 1949(and of British, French, and Dutch children who were
evacuated to the countryside; boys and girls sent alone from Europe
to England on the Kindertransports; the teenaged soldiers of the
Reich; the small veterans of the quarries, the factories, and the
camps as well as those who survived in lonely hiding.
In "Cruel World Lynn Nicholas shows us clearly, and with passionate
empathy for the innocent victims, the crimes against children that
inevitably result when ideology overwhelms humanity. This powerful
book, as it recounts the waking nightmare that enmeshed the lives
of Europe's boys and girls, bears witness to our own responsibility
to the children of the twenty-first century.
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