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Genre/Form: | History Personal narratives Récits personnels |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brandenburg, Christel Weiss, 1934- Ruined by the Reich. Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., ©2003 (OCoLC)607057705 Online version: Brandenburg, Christel Weiss, 1934- Ruined by the Reich. Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., ©2003 (OCoLC)609031125 |
Named Person: | Weiss family.; Christel Weiss Brandenburg; Christel Weiss Brandenburg; Weiss family. |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christel Weiss Brandenburg; Dan Laing |
ISBN: | 0786416157 9780786416158 |
OCLC Number: | 53145293 |
Description: | vi, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: July 1995 -- Weiss Family Members -- The Eastern Front, 1916 -- New Borders and a New Life -- The Nazis Gain Control of Germany -- The Battle for the Children -- Farm Life Circa 1938 -- The Family Celebrates -- War with Poland -- The Western Front Moves to the Sea -- Children for the Fatherland -- Winter War Stalemate, 1940 -- Stalin Is Rudely Awakened -- Alfred's Turn to Serve His Nation -- Fresh Recruits for the Fuhrer -- Leningrad Holds Out -- Bodies to Bury, Crops to Plant -- Planes to Fly -- Slave Laborers and Children Must Work -- No Joy for the World -- Bargaining with the Enemy -- Trouble at School -- In Over Our Heads in Prussia -- Evacuate Any Way Possible -- Driven to the Baltic Sea -- The Red Army Takes Everything -- The War Ends, Nothing Changes -- Train Tracks to Oblivion -- A New Life Among Strangers -- My Brothers Talk -- Our Troubled Hungry Family -- Germany Emerges from Hitler's Shadow -- A New Life in Canada. |
Responsibility: | Christel Weiss Brandenburg with Dan Laing. |
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Abstract:
Christel relates the history of her family back to World War I in order to set a context for describing how her sheltered and happy life collapsed in ruin near the end of World War II as she and her family lived under both Hitler and Stalin. She moved to Canada, where she is now retired. Annotation
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