The broken house : growing up under Hitler / Horst Kruger ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: London : Vintage, 2022.Description: 192 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781529113198
- 1529113199
- 943.086092 23
- DD256.5 .K7813 2022
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 943.086 KRU | Pending reserve | 072964 |
First published in Germany as 'Das zerbrochene Haus eine Jugend in Deutschland' by Rutten & Loening in 1966. New edition published by Schoffling & Co. in 2019.
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mold ofEvery Man Dies AloneandStoner- the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany. In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kr ger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the horrific details of the Holocaust executed by 'ordinary men' still living in their midst. The trial sent Kr ger back to his childhood in the 1930s, in an attempt to understand 'how it really was, that incomprehensible time'.
Translated from the German.
