| Description |
xxiv, 358 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-358). |
| Contents |
Part I. Paradise Lost, 1933-1942 -- Paradise -- Am I Still the Way We Used to Be? -- An Important Man Arrives -- A City I Would Fall in Love With -- The Night of Broken Glass -- The Announcement Came -- That's Just How It Is Now -- Part II. Bombs on Berlin, 1942-1945 -- In the Bunkers -- I'll Be Home in No Time -- You'll Study Medicine -- The Professor with the Gray Boots -- You'll Not Recognize It -- The Twentieth of July -- Horse Carts and Children -- Who Will Save Us? -- The Final Days -- It's Over -- Part III. Journey to a New Life, 1945-1949 -- A Sharp Turn -- Stay Small -- Snow -- The Seasons Changed -- You Still Have Hope -- The Wide-Open Nothingness -- Mutti Was Stoic -- How I Came to Kiel -- The Man Who Had Been to Canada -- Coda: Sweden, 1952 -- The Lake -- Letters to My Beloved Franzel -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
When Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II, she and her younger brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. Like countless citizens under Hitler's regime, Margarete struggled to understand what was happening to her country. Later, as a nurse for the German Red Cross, she treated countless young soldiers-recruited in the eleventh hour to fight a losing battle-they would die before her eyes as Allied bombs racked her beloved city. Yet, her deep humanity, intelligence, and passion for life-which sparkles in every sentence of her memoir-carried Margarete through to war's end. But just when she thought the worst was over, and she and her mother were on a train headed to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia... This powerful account draws back the curtain on a piece of history that has been largely overlooked-the nightmare that millions of German civilians suffered, simply because they were German. That Margarete survived to tell her tale so vividly and courageously is a gift to us all.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Dos, Margarete, 1924-2005.
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Dos, Margarete, 1924-2005 -- Correspondence.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
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Nurses -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
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Deutsches Rotes Kreuz -- Biography.
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Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Germany -- Berlin.
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Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Novomoskovsk -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
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| Added Author |
Lieff, Kerstin, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9780762777983 hardback |
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0762777982 hardback |
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