{"product_id":"2940045270991","title":"When I Was German","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe relentless crash of falling bombs, blackened, ruined cities, and a bitter conflict between a German and a Jew. A World War II story? No. Instead it was the daily fare of a boy born in suburban New Jersey in 1964. His mother was a refugee from the wreckage of postwar Munich whose unforgiving wartime memories ran like blood into the ears of her young American son. His father, a New York City Jew, had little sympathy for the sufferings of Germans. They were, after all, the monsters that created Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe young boy struggled to survive and grow in this shell-shocked home. His mother, through love and guile, made him an ally in her war against his father. The boy escaped, for a while, into a fantasy world of comic books and war play where the Germans were the good guys and his father was the bad guy. But adolescence came, unforgiving as a rolling barrage. A lonesome night with a razor blade was the catalyst that led him to begin the hard road to maturity and freedom.\u003cbr\u003eI was this boy. After my father’s death, I needed to understand my life with him and my mother, and the only way I could was to tell it as a story. When I Was German, my childhood memoir, was the result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Wynzel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082496655600,"sku":"2940045270991","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045270991_p0.jpg?v=1763971787","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045270991","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}