Those Who Forget
One Family's Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning
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2020
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-535-0 (ISBN)
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-535-0 (ISBN)
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A memoir of the past and a warning for today: the urgent account of a woman delving into her family's complicity with the Nazis during World War Two.
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020
During the war, Géraldine Schwarz's German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement of their apartment building, Geraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' of Jewish businesses - and so she is compelled to investigate her ancestors' past. How guilty were they?
Combining generations of family stories with the history of Europe's post-war reckoning, Géraldine asks: how did Germans transform their collective guilt into democratic responsibility? And, given rising populism in Europe today, how can we ensure we remember the crimes of the past?
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020
During the war, Géraldine Schwarz's German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement of their apartment building, Geraldine discovers that her grandfather Karl profited from the forced 'Aryanisation' of Jewish businesses - and so she is compelled to investigate her ancestors' past. How guilty were they?
Combining generations of family stories with the history of Europe's post-war reckoning, Géraldine asks: how did Germans transform their collective guilt into democratic responsibility? And, given rising populism in Europe today, how can we ensure we remember the crimes of the past?
Géraldine Schwarz is a German-French journalist, author and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Those Who Forget, an account of her family's complicity with fascism, is her first book. It has been translated into eight languages and won the European Book Prize 2018, the Winfried Preis and the Nord-Sud Prize.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.05.2020 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Laura Marris |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78227-535-5 / 1782275355 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78227-535-0 / 9781782275350 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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