General Information

Author/Creator

Stargardt, Nicholas, 1962-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Physical Description

xvi, 493 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Children were at the center of Nazi ideology; now we have their history of those years. Their stories open a world we have never seen before. War came home to children as a set of events without precedent, spectacular and terrifying by turns. As the Nazis overran Europe, children were saved or damned according to their race. Precious few remained unscathed during the war, and most suffered a moment that overturned their lives. For some, it was the evacuation to become junior colonists in the East; for others, it was the onset of heavy bombing, the separation of families or learning to keep their parents alive by smuggling food, creating black markets and devising their own escape networks. Some herded women waiting to be shot. Girls manned flak batteries; boys confronted Soviet tanks. Drawing on an untouched wealth of original material – school assignments; juvenile diaries; letters from evacuation camps, reformatories and asylums; letters to fathers at the front lines; even accounts of children’s games — Nicholas Stargardt breaks stereotypes of victimhood and trauma to give us the gripping individual stories of the generation Hitler made.

Subjects

Subject

World War, 1939-1945 > Children.

Child witnesses.

Germany > History > 1933-1945.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Nicholas Stargardt.

Note

"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, London, in 2005"--T.p. verso.

Content

Pt. I. The home front. 1. Germans at war -- 2. Disciplined youth -- 3. Medical murder -- Pt. II. The race war. 4. Lebensraum -- 5. The Great Crusade -- 6. Deportation -- 7. The family group -- Pt. III. The war comes home. 8. Bombing -- 9. Forced out -- 10. The final sacrifice - Pt. IV. Afterwards. 11. The defeated -- 12. The liberated.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

1400040884

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	940.53/161 STA		General Stacks	-

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