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Lili Hahn

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White Flags of Surrender (1974) 12 kappaletta

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Kanoninen nimi
Hahn, Lili
Syntymäaika
1914-04-10
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Germany
Asuinpaikat
Frankfurt, Germany
Ammatit
memoirist
Holocaust survivor
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Lili Schroeder Hahn was the daughter of a German physician and his wife who was Jewish. With the rise of the Nazi regime to power, Lili lost her job as a newspaper reporter in 1935, and her father had to give up his medical practice. Her mother was taken away and later killed. Everyday life in Frankfurt continued until the Allies began to bomb German cities in World War II. Lili survived and left Germany for the USA. Her memoir, White Flags of Surrender, described how ordinary German citizens gradually transformed under Nazi political power, and the ways in which some resisted. The book was translated into English from the original German by Sibyl Milton and published in 1974.

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The diary of a half-Jewish, half-German young woman in Frankfurt, Germany, covering the entire period of the Third Reich. Lili Hahn wanted to be a journalist and she records the events around her in a journalistic fashion. I'm not sure how much this diary was reconstructed or edited after the fact. An awful lot of conversations are reproduced verbatim, which is unusual for a diary.

You might be able to compare this with Victor Klemperer's diary from the same period. Certainly Lili and her family went through some trials -- she and both her parents were imprisoned at one time or another, her father had to give up his medical practice, and Lili had to submit to sexual exploitation by a Gestapo officer so he would not deport her Jewish mother. But, assuming the diary was not edited/rewritten with benefit of hindsight, Lili and her friends were very intelligent, astute individuals and sustained by the firm belief that Germany would lose the war and the Reich would collapse.

I'm surprised this diary isn't better known. It's an excellent representation of ordinary life in that time and place.
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meggyweg | Aug 26, 2010 |

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Arvio (tähdet)
4.0
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ISBN:t
3
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