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The Buchenwald Child - Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,142
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The Buchenwald Child - Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda (Paperback): William Niven

The Buchenwald Child - Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda (Paperback)

William Niven

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany. At the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, communist prisoners organized resistance against the SS and even planned an uprising. They helped rescue a three-year-old Jewish boy, Stefan Jerzy Zweig, from certain death in the gas chambers. After the war, his story became a focus for the German Democratic Republic's celebration of its resistance to the Nazis. Now Bill Niven tells the true story of Stefan Zweig: what actually happened to him in Buchenwald, how he was protected, and at what price. He explores the (mis)representation of Zweig's rescue in East Germany and what this reveals about that country's understanding of its Nazi past. Finally he looks at the telling of the Zweig rescue story since German unification: a story told in the GDR to praise communists has become a story used to condemn them. Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at the Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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Imprint: Camden House
Country of origin: United States
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Release date: June 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: William Niven (Series Editor)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-404-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 1-57113-404-2
Barcode: 9781571134042

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