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Autobiography -- World War II --> Why did the German people tolerate the Nazi madness? Maria Ritter's life is haunted by the ever-painful, never-answerable "German Question." Who knew? What was known? Confronting the profound silence in which most postwar Germans buried pain and sh...

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Main Author: Ritter, Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ritter, Maria.
Refugees.
Psychological aspects.
German Americans.
Forced migration.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Refugies > Allemagne (Est)
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect psychologique.
Americains d'origine allemande > Biographies.
Refugees > Germany (East)
Forced migration > Germany > Dresden.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
German Americans > Biography.
Germany (East)
Germany > Dresden.
Dresden (Germany) > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Autobiography -- World War II --> Why did the German people tolerate the Nazi madness? Maria Ritter's life is haunted by the ever-painful, never-answerable "German Question." Who knew? What was known? Confronting the profound silence in which most postwar Germans buried pain and shame, she attempts in this memoir to give an answer for herself and for her generation. Sixty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, she reflects on the nation's oppressive burden and the persecution of the contemporary consciousness. "'We received what we deserved, ' my grandfather said after the war, and I believed.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781604736403

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