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TO LOSE A WAR: MEMORIES OF A GERMAN GIRL By Regina Maria Shelton - Hardcover

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ISBN-10
0809310740
Publication Name
Southern Illinois University Press
Type
Hardcover
ISBN
9780809310746

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809310740
ISBN-13
9780809310746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
563129

Product Key Features

Book Title
To Lose a War : Memories of a German Girl
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, General
Publication Year
1982
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Regina Maria Shelton
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
82-005916
Synopsis
Martin Blumenson refers to this book as a sensitive, beautifully written personal memoir, and calls it a contribution to understanding, particularly to Americans who know little of how World War II and its immediate aftermath disrupted the lives of those who survived the defeat of Germany. Vividly, humanly, Shelton tells her story from the point of view of a teen-age German girl, one who witnessed her country s surge to power and who felt the ignominy of both Germany and Germans after the fall. She reaches a point during the war when Sometimes the way we now live seems unreal, as if we were marionettes, with orders and permits and schedules attached to us instead of strings. But after the defeat of Germany life gets considerably worse. The victorious Russians evict the natives from their homes. They sneer and leer at the women who must venture forth for food. In this defeated land the nights become unbearably long; without any physical activity by day, sleep refuses to come. I yearn for sleep, be it temporary or eternal. Death is becoming a friend; the enemy has a new name now: Rape. Then comes the dreaded order to evacuate all Germans from Lower Silesia: How can a whole people be uprooted, disowned, tossed aside like useless flotsamhow? With the stroke of a pen, with a new line drawn on a map, we are sentenced to homelessness. Not knowing where they will be sent, they plod out into darkness and cold with the other Germans, their worldly goods reduced to what they can carry. Embittered, they are herded into vermin-infested freight cars, still unaware of their destination.", Martin Blumenson refers to this book as a "sensitive, beautifully written personal memoir," and calls it a contribution to under­standing, "particularly to Americans who know little of how World War II and its immediate aftermath disrupted the lives of those who survived the defeat of Germany." Vividly, humanly, Shelton tells her story from the point of view of a teen-age German girl, one who witnessed her country's surge to power and who felt the ignominy of both Germany and Ger­mans after the fall. She reaches a point during the war when "Sometimes the way we now live seems unreal, as if we were marionettes, with orders and permits and schedules attached to us instead of strings." But after the defeat of Germany life gets considerably worse. The victorious Russians evict the natives from their homes. They sneer and leer at the women who must venture forth for food. In this defeated land "the nights become unbearably long; without any physical activity by day, sleep refuses to come. I yearn for sleep, be it temporary or eternal. Death is becoming a friend; the enemy has a new name now: Rape." Then comes the dreaded order to evacuate all Germans from Lower Silesia: "How can a whole people be uprooted, disowned, tossed aside like useless flotsam--how? With the stroke of a pen, with a new line drawn on a map, we are sentenced to homelessness." Not knowing where they will be sent, they plod out into darkness and cold with the other Germans, their worldly goods reduced to what they can carry. Embittered, they are herded into vermin-infested freight cars, still unaware of their destination.

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