Almost a Childhood
Growing Up Among the Nazis

 

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Almost a Childhood
Growing Up Among the Nazis

by Hans-Georg Behr (Author)
Anthea Bell (Translator)

 

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ISBN: 9781862077812

 

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Hans-Georg Behr experienced a remarkable childhood in wartime Austria. His liberal, artistic grandparents belonged to the aristocracy; his cold-hearted mother was a celebrated opera singer; and his distant father a prominent industrialist.


Hans-Georg Behr experienced a remarkable childhood in wartime Austria. His liberal, artistic grandparents belonged to the aristocracy; his cold-hearted mother was a celebrated opera singer; and his distant father a prominent industrialist. His parents were also rabid Nazis, and the high office his father held in the Ministry of Aviation brought the young Hans-Georg into contact with 'Uncle Josef' (Goebbels), 'Uncle Hermann' (Goring), and 'Uncle Adolf' himself. As the war advances, their world begins to collapse, though the writer has only a child's grasp of the reasons why: his older half-brother confronts Russian soldiers with his air-rifle and Hitler Youth uniform and is killed. His half-sister swallows cyanide. Later his grandparents' estate is wrecked by the advancing Russians, while his mother, no longer able to perform, ends up serving in a bar, where her son collects the glasses. The book was hailed as a literary triumph when it appeared in Germany for the way in which Behr recaptures the freshness of his own childhood perceptions and its flashes of darkly ironic humour.


 

ISBN 1862077819
ISBN13 9781862077812
Publisher Granta Books
Format Hardback
Publication date 01/08/2005
Pages 300
Weight (grammes) 531
Published in United Kingdom
Height (mm) 220
Width (mm) 147

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