
Postcards to Hitler : a German Jew's defiance in a time of terror / Bruce Neuburger
"Postcards to Hitler is the story of a Munich family living as close neighbors to the demagogue who will become the primordial commander of the Nazis-as passionately told by one of their surviving relatives, Bruce Neuburger. As the story begins, Europe has enjoyed many decades of peace on its o...
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Auteurs principaux: | Neuburger, Bruce |
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Format: | Livre |
Langue: | English |
Publié: | New York : Monthly Review Press, [2024] © 2024 |
Édition: | First edition |
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Accès en ligne: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Résumé: | "Postcards to Hitler is the story of a Munich family living as close neighbors to the demagogue who will become the primordial commander of the Nazis-as passionately told by one of their surviving relatives, Bruce Neuburger. As the story begins, Europe has enjoyed many decades of peace on its own soil and Jews are enjoying a social renaissance in the industrializing, urbanizing rising star that is Germany. It is not at all clear that this good fortune might begin to unravel. Benno Neuburger, a modest German land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer from Laupheim, marry in 1907. Their family life begins at a relatively prosperous moment in Germany - and a particularly optimistic time for German Jews. Even when news of an assassination in an "obscure" Balkan corner of the continent passes like a cold wind through Munich on a warm beer-garden July day in 1914, people shudder but feel no great alarm.^ |
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Description matérielle: | 456 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 21 cm |
ISBN: | 9781685900540 |