My german question, growing up in nazi Berlin
/ Peter Gay
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press , c1998.
- 208 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
In this book, an historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, antireligious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933-1939 - the story says Peter Gay, of a poisoning and how I dealt with it. Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings - then and now - toward Germany and the Germans. Gay relates that the early years of the Nazi regime were relatively benign for his family: as a schoolboy at the Goethe Gymnasium he experienced no ridicule or attacks, his father's buiness prospered, and most of the family's non-Jewish friends remained supportive. He devised survival strategies - stamp collecting, watching soccer, and the like - that served as screens to block out the increasingly oppressive world around him. Even before the events of 1938-39, culminating in Kristallnacht, the family was convinced that they must leave the country.
English.
0-300-08070-0
Gay, Peter , 1923-
Jews---Germany---Berlin Jews---Germany---History,1933-1945 National socialism---Germany---Berlin