Author: Wolfgang Goettig
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522729877
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Because not much was known of my growing up years in Germany and my time in the German and U.S. Military, my number three daughter Jean had suggested a few years ago that I write about some of my experiences. I guess I have procrastinated long enough and it is time for me to sit down, look back and try to remember what happened so long ago. Originally, I thought I could fill just a few pages, never realizing that in the end it would add up to over 100 pages. I hope that reading about my life will not bore you too much.
Author: Herb Flemming
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449735819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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"I would like to thank Timothy King, who actually wrote my story, and his wife Tammy, who transcribed most of our interview tapes, for all their labor in putting this work together"--Page v.
Author: Monica Porter
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526764318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier’s best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real life stories of the children and teenagers who went further and actually stood up to the Nazis. Here, for the first time, Monica Porter gathers together their stories from many corners of occupied Europe, showing how in a variety of audacious and inventive ways children as young as six resisted the Nazi menace, risking and sometimes even sacrificing their brief lives in the process: a heroism that until now has largely gone unsung. These courageous youngsters came from all classes and backgrounds. There were high school drop-outs and social misfits, brainy bookworms, the children of farmers and factory workers. Some lost their entire families to the war, yet fought on alone. Often more adept and fearless at resistance than adults, they exuded an air of guilessness and could slip more easily under the Nazi radar. But as nets tightened, many were captured, tortured or imprisoned, some paying the highest price – a life cut short by execution before they had even turned eighteen. These children were motivated by different ideals; patriotism, political conviction, their Christian beliefs, or revulsion at the brutality of the Third Reich. But what united them was their determination to strike back at an enemy which had deprived them of their freedom, their dignity - and their childhood.
Author: Catrine Clay
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224082892
Category : Nazis
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR How did one man go from Nazi Youth indoctrination to English footballing icon? Bert Trautmann is a football legend. He is famed as the Manchester City goalkeeper who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final and played on. But his early life was no less extraordinary. He grew up in Nazi Germany, where first he was indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, before fighting in World War Two in France and on the Eastern Front. In 1945 he was captured and sent to a British POW camp where, for the first time, he understood that there could be a better way of life. He embraced England as his new home and before long became an English football hero. This is his story. 'A gripping story of an unlikely redemption through football' Sunday Times 'He was the best goalkeeper I ever played against. We always said, don't look into the goal when you're trying to score against Bert. Because if you do, he'll see your eyes and read your thoughts.' Bobby Charlton
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338088378
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Robert F. Sibert Award-winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups."I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.
Author: Jeff Cisowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781701414198
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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God Meant it for Good is the remarkable true story of an American-born boy who grew up in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. After a family tragedy, Elmer Reu was sent from Chicago to rural Kürnbach in southwestern Germany, at the very time Hitler seized power. Elmer's childhood was marked by farming and poverty, until he heard the Nazi's promise of a brighter future. It wasn't long before Elmer and his friends joined the Hitler Youth, a propaganda-fueled group for young boys. With activities like hiking, camping, and sports, along with improvements to the country like the Autobahn and the Volkswagen, the Nazis seemingly had lifted Germany from economic despair. When World War II broke out, Elmer and his entire village struggled to reconcile Hitler's devotion to Germans with the dictator's violent megalomania and hatred of others. What reason could God possibly have had to send Elmer from America into such a dangerous tempest? As the war intensified, so did Elmer's disillusionment with America. Soon, he was on a dangerous path headed directly for his German-born brother-now a soldier in the American Army marching toward the Black Forest. Elmer's story of deliverance and redemption is interwoven with the Biblical story of Joseph and the author's own quest to make sense of his family heritage. Journey through time and space-from Chicago in 2009 to rural 1940s Germany, from Egypt in 1883 B.C. to Israel in 2018-to see how God intends every trial for the good of those who follow Him.
Author: Ottomar Rudolf
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 159299735X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Born in 1929 in Germany, Ottomar Rudolf lived during World War II in Ulm on the Danube. Towards the end of the war he was inducted into the Wehrmacht. He served in the Panzer Corps in 1945 and was sent to the eastern front. He returned to Ulm after being wounded. When the war ended Ulm was in the American sector of occupation. Relatives sponsored him to come to the United States. Arriving in New York in 1948, he attended Manhattan College in New York City and received a BA in Philosophy. His first teaching position was at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the Korean War he was drafted into the Signal Corps. While serving, he became an American citizen. After Korea he was sent to Heidelberg, Germany, to finish his tour of duty. At the University of Heidelberg he studied Philosophy and German Literature and upon his return to the United States he continued those studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He subsequently received appointments as assistant professor of German at Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges in Pennsylvania. In 1959 he earned his PhD in Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963 he moved to Portland, Oregon to take the position of Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, where he taught until his retirement in 1998 as Professor Emeritus. Professor Rudolf was also Visiting Professor at the universities of Freiburg and Munich. A published scholar and frequent lecturer on German culture and history, Professor Rudolf was awarded the Verdienstkreuz Erster Klasse, Officer's Cross, by the President of Germany in 1989. He lives in Portland with his wife Catherine.
Author: Rick Holz
Publisher: Ulverscroft
ISBN: 9780708946671
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Rick Holz was born in a small town in Germany in 1924, to a father who told him glorious stories from the Great War, and a mother who never understood him. When his father dies on the first day of school, little 'Ollie' feels deserted in a harsh world. He joins the Hitler Youth at ten and begins to greet his mother with 'Heil Hitler' instead of 'Good morning'. At seventeen, the young patriot can barely wait to sign up for the infantry and fight for his beloved Fuhrer. But his years of brainwashing quickly wear off as he reaches the brink of insanity defending a corridor west of Stalingrad. .
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338214314
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about Hitler. Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times , to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.
Author: Herb Flemming
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889283180
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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