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War & Defeat
War & Defeat
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War & Defeat
The author was born 4 years before the beginning of World War 2. By the age of 10 his childhood experience is only war. Living with the of the constant threat of bombing raids, death, and destruction is then followed by the dishonor of defeat. His father died as a soldier, the destruction of Berlin is total, followed by the division of the country into two parts. A dislike for Communism develops with the experiences in East Germany.
The chance to live better for him starts with the migration to the US. Here it becomes clear that most of the family members were Communists before and during the war. To understand is becoming an obsession.
Experiences that follow in the US are equally disturbing, as the citizens seem to be quite uninformed and with it, the constant assumption that all Germans were Nazis. It becomes a necessity to write the story of the War & Defeat with all its horrors as the people of Germany lived it. What were the people like in those times, hopes, disappointments, fears, and losing all. How did they live in those times? There was a need to ultimately understand their motives for a better world.
While after the War, German tried to eliminate its prejudicial past, it's was widely still practiced in America. Blacks and other minorities has little of the civil rights that whites enjoyed.
The City of Berlin is the hotspot of the War and the Defeat. The experiences are glory, war, and dishonor, follow by a lengthy recovery. The book "War & Defeat" is the experiences of a child and juvenile in the war. The idea of the Western Allies to bomb civilians into submission and tun them against their leaders was stupid, it turns the victims against the bombing aggressors. If the people had already turned against their own government, actual assembly in any scale was impossible and became even lessor possible as the people were more consumed with their survival from air raids beyond the threat of discovery from their own Government. Those that did, like many German army officers, did not survive.
This book takes a look into the hypocrisies of prejudice, which is always resulting in the leading causes for violence. Here we can try to understand the actions of a people driven to the brink of poverty and despair, which then are gaining hope be accepting a lost cause, example like the Nazis, as a resolution
This book takes a look into the hypocrisies of prejudice, which is always resulting in the leading causes for violence. Here we can try to understand the actions of a people driven to the brink of poverty and despair, which then are gaining hope be accepting a lost cause, example like the Nazis, as a resolution
The author was born 4 years before the beginning of World War 2. By the age of 10 his childhood experience is only war. Living with the of the constant threat of bombing raids, death, and destruction is then followed by the dishonor of defeat. His father died as a soldier, the destruction of Berlin is total, followed by the division of the country into two parts. A dislike for Communism develops with the experiences in East Germany.
The chance to live better for him starts with the migration to the US. Here it becomes clear that most of the family members were Communists before and during the war. To understand is becoming an obsession.
Experiences that follow in the US are equally disturbing, as the citizens seem to be quite uninformed and with it, the constant assumption that all Germans were Nazis. It becomes a necessity to write the story of the War & Defeat with all its horrors as the people of Germany lived it. What were the people like in those times, hopes, disappointments, fears, and losing all. How did they live in those times? There was a need to ultimately understand their motives for a better world.
While after the War, German tried to eliminate its prejudicial past, it's was widely still practiced in America. Blacks and other minorities has little of the civil rights that whites enjoyed.
The City of Berlin is the hotspot of the War and the Defeat. The experiences are glory, war, and dishonor, follow by a lengthy recovery. The book "War & Defeat" is the experiences of a child and juvenile in the war. The idea of the Western Allies to bomb civilians into submission and tun them against their leaders was stupid, it turns the victims against the bombing aggressors. If the people had already turned against their own government, actual assembly in any scale was impossible and became even lessor possible as the people were more consumed with their survival from air raids beyond the threat of discovery from their own Government. Those that did, like many German army officers, did not survive.
This book takes a look into the hypocrisies of prejudice, which is always resulting in the leading causes for violence. Here we can try to understand the actions of a people driven to the brink of poverty and despair, which then are gaining hope be accepting a lost cause, example like the Nazis, as a resolution
This book takes a look into the hypocrisies of prejudice, which is always resulting in the leading causes for violence. Here we can try to understand the actions of a people driven to the brink of poverty and despair, which then are gaining hope be accepting a lost cause, example like the Nazis, as a resolution
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