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Nightmares of an East Prussian Childhood

Author : Ilse Stritzke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786473541
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Nightmares of an East Prussian Childhood written by Ilse Stritzke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents. That decision cost her family dearly in wartorn Europe, 1945. Ilse grew up on a small farm, with a wonderful family, the woods as a playground and the beaches of the Baltic. Then turmoil followed the German defeat by the Russians and the subsequent occupation. In 31 months under the Russians, Ilse's family is driven from their home, she mourns her missing father, witnesses her mother's rape, sees her grandparents and baby brother succumb to the brutal conditions, and hears of her oldest sister's capture and death in a work prison. Fighting starvation, Ilse crafts ways to coexist with the Russians, scavenging, begging and stealing to help the family survive.

Forgotten Land

Author : Max Egremont
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429969334
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Land written by Max Egremont and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In Forgotten Land, Max Egremont offers a vivid account of this region and its people through the stories of individuals who were intimately involved in and transformed by its tumultuous history, as well as accounts of his own travels and interviews he conducted along the way. Forgotten Land is a story of historical identity and character, told through intimate portraits of people and places. It is a unique examination of the layers of history, of the changing perceptions and myths of homeland, of virtue and of wickedness, and of how a place can still overwhelm those who left it years before.

A Child of East Prussia

Author : Hiltrud Maria Masuch Webber
Publisher : H M W Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Child of East Prussia written by Hiltrud Maria Masuch Webber and published by H M W Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ruined by the Reich

Author : Christel Weiss Brandenburg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606862
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ruined by the Reich written by Christel Weiss Brandenburg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were Nazi sympathizers still persists. This book follows the story of the Weiss family in East Prussia from World War I to the end of World War II. It is told from the point of view not of the victors but of the vanquished. Beginning with the good citizenship trap Hitler set for law-abiding German families, the book describes how Germany first prospered and then fell to ruin with the Third Reich. The people traded their freedoms for a national security, which quickly turned to tyranny with swift consequences for "disobedience." Like Christel's brothers (soldiers and members of Hitler's Youth), propaganda-fed children all over the Reich believed the highly idealized depiction of their roles and of their nation's victims. This fascinating and richly detailed memoir is told through the intimate narration of a woman who grew up in the midst of turmoil, experienced poverty and prejudice, witnessed the deaths of many loved ones, and was driven from her home by the Soviet Army. The combination of domestic details and vivid historical descriptions creates an unusual book as absorbing as it is educational.

The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front

Author : Sonya Winterberg
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399014617
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front written by Sonya Winterberg and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If this doesn’t move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' –John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944) Told by the children who survived, these stories could well be the last eyewitness report of the aftermath of the Second World War. As the land where they once lived was integrated into the Eastern Bloc, their accounts remained hushed until after the Iron Curtain fell. Now, in The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front, they break their silence. During the bitter winter months of 1944-45, hundreds of thousands of Germans fled East Prussia from an advancing Red Army. With sometimes only minutes’ notice, families escaped in horse-drawn carriages, or they simply ran on foot. In desperation, mothers threw babies onto handcarts, pushing ahead through snowstorms and freezing temperatures. Exhausted, horses broke down, left to die in roadside ditches. Pounding artillery filled the air. In the ensuing chaos, 20,000 children lost their families – to the mayhem, to starvation, epidemics or gunfire. Even the youngest suddenly found themselves alone in the world, needing to forage for food and find shelter. They hid in bullet-riddled barns and wandered from house to house, begging for help. While many died, there are the few that managed to survive. Their experiences are unimaginable: toes frozen off, endless hunger, rape, physical abuse. Those considered lucky were eventually taken in, even lovingly cared for, primarily by Lithuanian farmers, but nearly to the last of them, they grew into adulthood illiterate and poverty-stricken. Yet a surprising truth lives within nearly every one of these victims – an overwhelming sense of hope and forgiveness. They are the Wolf Children.

The Home of My Heart

Author : Gerda Pleasants
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974698868
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Home of My Heart written by Gerda Pleasants and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am writing this book for myself and my children, and also to keep alive the memory of my home in East Prussia. This home as I knew it no longer exists; most of the people you will read about have died, many of the building have disappeared, and even the towns and the region have different names." So begins this deeply personal memoir of a young woman's life irrevocably changed by Germany's declaration of war. Gerda was only 17 when she was drafted into Nazi Germany's civilian labor corps. She vividly describes her experiences as a land girl, plane spotter, prisoner of war, refugee and American war bride.

Battleground Prussia

Author : Prit Buttar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780964641
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Battleground Prussia written by Prit Buttar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil. The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished. From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously untold testimony and astute strategic analysis recognising a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.

All for Nothing

Author : Walter Kempowski
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372061
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book All for Nothing written by Walter Kempowski and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.

The Flight Across The Ice

Author : Patricia Clough
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191037685X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Flight Across The Ice written by Patricia Clough and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving and untold story of the Russian advance into East Prussia in 1945, and the fight for survival of a people and their way of life

From Stonischken to Gedhus

Author : Gerda Braunheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570740992
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book From Stonischken to Gedhus written by Gerda Braunheim and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of East Prussia

Author : Peter B. Clark
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781481935753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Death of East Prussia written by Peter B. Clark and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on what happened in East Prussia in World War II and afterward"--Introduction.

In the Shadow of Wolves

Author : Alvydas Šlepikas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786074699
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Wolves written by Alvydas Šlepikas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Times Book of the Year, 2019 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS OVER. BUT THE WORLD IS FAR FROM SAFE. As victorious Russian troops sweep across East Prussia, a group of desperate children face a new battle. Confronted by critical food shortages and the onset of a bitterly cold winter, these 'wolf children' secretly cross the border into Lithuania in search of work or food to take back to their starving families. In a world still reeling from the devastation of war, the children must risk everything to survive. In the Shadow of Wolves is a story of resilience, devastation and, ultimately, hope. Based on meticulous research, Alvydas Šlepikas's stunningly powerful debut novel has won over readers and critics across the world.

Abandoned and Forgotten

Author : Evelyne Tannehill
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1587366932
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned and Forgotten written by Evelyne Tannehill and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about World War II, but not often do we hear about the immeasurable suffering of the Germans who wanted no part of Hitler's regime. Abandoned and Forgotten is the memoir of a young girl growing up in the then-German province of East Prussia by the Baltic Sea. Orphaned at the age of nine and left to fend for herself in a hostile world, Evelyne Tannehill witnessed firsthand what happens when law and order break down and self-preservation becomes the only thing that matters. Her journey is a poignant example of how resilient the human spirit can be, even in the face of war's greatest horrors.

Childhood in Germany During World War II

Author : Karla O. Poewe
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Childhood in Germany During World War II written by Karla O. Poewe and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today a distinguished anthropologist, Karla Poewe was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, in 1941. In this autobiography, she tells of her early life as a vagrant refugee pursued by Russian armies and Allied bombs during World War II.

Inge's War

Author : Svenja O'Donnell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880225
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Inge's War written by Svenja O'Donnell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary saga." —David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for sixty years Growing up in Paris as the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. All she knew was that her great-grandparents, grandmother, and mother had fled their home city of Königsberg near the end of World War II, never to return. But everything changed when O'Donnell traveled to the city—now known as Kaliningrad, and a part of Russia—and called her grandmother, who uncharacteristically burst into tears. "I have so much to tell you," Inge said. In this transporting and illuminating book, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow. Ultimately, O'Donnell uncovers the act of violence that separated Inge from the man she loved; a terrible secret hidden for more than six decades. A captivating World War II saga, Inge's War is also a powerful reckoning with the meaning of German identity and inherited trauma. In retracing her grandmother's footsteps, O'Donnell not only discovers the remarkable story of a woman caught in the gears of history, but also comes face-to-face with her family's legacy of neutrality and inaction—and offers a rare glimpse into a reality too long buried by silence and shame.

Weeds Like Us

Author : Gunter Nitsch
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438933126
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Weeds Like Us written by Gunter Nitsch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uprooting of seven million civilians - women, children, and elderly men - from their homes in the German provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia following World War II is largely unknown in the United States. Weeds Like Us is a gripping true adventure story about the author's own East Prussian family. The author's earliest years were spent in relative comfort on his grandfather's farm in East Prussia during World War II. For him, life in Hitler's Germany was the natural order of things. Then, in January 1945, just after the author's seventh birthday, the Russians rolled into East Prussia. Full of unexpected twists and turns, Weeds Like Us tells the story of what happened over the next six years, as the author's family tried to make its way safely to the West.

Violence in Defeat

Author : Bastiaan Willems
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479723
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Violence in Defeat written by Bastiaan Willems and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the Wehrmacht's defensive conduct contributed to the radicalisation of behavioural patterns in Germany during the war's final months.