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