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Author Bruhns, Wibke, 1938-2019

Title My father's country : the story of a German family / Wibke Bruhns ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  943.086 BRUHNS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  943.086 BRUHNS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-KLAMROTH, H.    Check Shelf
Description 361 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary In August, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried and executed for treason for his part in the July plot against Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old. Decades later, watching a documentary, she saw images of her father on-screen. "I stare at this man with the empty face. I don't know him. But I can see myself in him... I know I resemble him. I know I wouldn't be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all." How could her patriotic family succumb to Nazi sympathies? And what made her father finally renounce Hitler? With letters and diaries documenting the story of her family, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of the Second World War, she unravels her family's history-- the experience of being German in the last century.--From publisher description.
Subject Klamroth, Hans Georg, 1898-1944.
Intelligence officers -- Germany -- Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- History.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Biography.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts
Bruhns, Wibke, 1938-2019
Added Author Whiteside, Shaun.
Added Title Meines Vaters Land. English
ISBN 0307262812
9780307262813
Standard No. 40015478909
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