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Personal tales amidst Germany’s darkest times.
If history fascinates you, especially the human aspects within monumental events, "Broken Lives" offers a profound collective memoir. It’s eye-opening to observe World War II and its aftermath through the authentic voices of those who lived it. Konrad Jarausch brings forth an emotional and reflective narrative, giving us a chance to learn from the past—a past shared by ordinary individuals whose experiences led to a redefined national identity. This read isn't just informative; it's a deep dive into the resilience and transformation of the human spirit.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780691174587
Authors:
Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date of Publication: 2018-06-12
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.76
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The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation. Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did. Drawing on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jarausch chronicles the unforgettable stories of people who not only lived through the Third Reich, World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition, but also participated in Germany's astonishing postwar recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation. Written decades after the events, these testimonies, many of them unpublished, look back on the mistakes of young people caught up in the Nazi movement. In many, early enthusiasm turns to deep disillusionment as the price of complicity with a brutal dictatorship--fighting at the front, aerial bombardment at home, murder in the concentration camps--becomes clear. Bringing together the voices of men and women, perpetrators and victims, Broken Lives reveals the intimate human details of historical events and offers new insights about persistent questions. Why did so many Germans support Hitler through years of wartime sacrifice and Nazi inhumanity? How did they finally distance themselves from this racist dictatorship and come to embrace human rights? Jarausch argues that
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Personal tales amidst Germany’s darkest times.
If history fascinates you, especially the human aspects within monumental events, "Broken Lives" offers a profound collective memoir. It’s eye-opening to observe World War II and its aftermath through the authentic voices of those who lived it. Konrad Jarausch brings forth an emotional and reflective narrative, giving us a chance to learn from the past—a past shared by ordinary individuals whose experiences led to a redefined national identity. This read isn't just informative; it's a deep dive into the resilience and transformation of the human spirit.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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