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The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II
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The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War IIby Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful: Important Addition to Historical Record, October 14, 2002 Reviewer:Andrew Freborg (Stow, Ohio United States) - An important and critical addition to the historical record - and certainly provides more "depth" to the entire WWII experience. A welcome prespective given our nations present situation --- i.e. what is the civilian/child experience during major offensive war operations. There were real people in the cities which were saturation bombed and straffed. The fire bombing of Dresden and the story of school children in Leuna who are sent home during an air raid but are strafed as moving targets are particularly moving and horrifying. The complete absence of hate, revenge, and desire for restitution is also a testiment to the character of Germany's children of war. Why aren't books like these "required" reading in history classes?
From Booklist
These poignant memories by 27 German survivors of World War II relate how as children--ages 3 to 12--they endured air raids, hunger, terror, invading armies, and deprivation. Samuel tells of their resilience under the most trying circumstances and the critical role their mothers played in their lives. Samuel, a survivor himself and author of German Boy: A Refugee's Story (2000), relates that during the course of his interviews he encountered no one wanting revenge, and no one expressing a hate or dislike of people of other nations or ethnic groups because of events that happened long ago. He found that many of them are still troubled by the sounds, sights, or smells that remind them of war, bringing back the dark moments of childhood, and that few have shared completely their memories with their children. George Cohen
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