Bibliograph

My father's country, the story of a German family, Wibke Bruhns ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

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My father's country, the story of a German family, Wibke Bruhns ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My father's country

Oclc number

227211474

Responsibility statement

Wibke Bruhns ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

Sub title

the story of a German family

Summary

In August, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried and executed for treason for his part in the July plot against Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old. Decades later, watching a documentary, she saw images of her father on-screen. "I stare at this man with the empty face. I don't know him. But I can see myself in him... I know I resemble him. I know I wouldn't be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all." How could her patriotic family succumb to Nazi sympathies? And what made her father finally renounce Hitler? With letters and diaries documenting the story of her family, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of the Second World War, she unravels her family's history-- the experience of being German in the last century.--From publisher description

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