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When Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II, she and her younger brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. Like countless citizens under Hitler’s regime, Margarete struggled to understand what was happening to her country. Later, as a... read more
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Introduction
Note to the Reader
Part I: Paradise Lost, 1933-1942
1. Paradise
2. Am I Still the Way We Used to Be?
3. An Important Man ARrives
4. A City I Could Fall in Love With
5. The Night of Broken Glass
6. The Announcement Came
7. That's Just How It Is Now
Part II: Bombs on Berlin, 1942-1945
8. In the Bunkers
9. I'll be Home in No Time
10. You'll Study Medicine
11. The Professor with the Gray Boots
12. You'll Not Recognize It
13. The Twentieth of July
14. Horse Carts and Children
15. Who Will Save Us?
16. The Final Days
17. It's Over
Part III: Journey to a New Life, 1945-1949
18. A Sharp Turn
19. Stay Small
20. Snow
21. The Seasons Changed
22. You Still Have Hope
23. The Wide-Open Nothingness
24. Mutti Was Stoic
25. How I Came to Kiel
26. The Man Who HAd Been to Canada
Coda: Sweden, 1952
27. The Lake
Letters to my Beloved Franzel
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Authors & Contributors edit
- Margarete Dos (Author)
- Kerstin Lieff (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Lyons Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780762777983
Page Count: 358
Publisher: Lyons Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780762777983
Page Count: 358
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: D811.5.D637 2013
- Dewey: 940.5343 DOS
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