Hitler, my neighbor : memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939 /
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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New York :
Other Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested. His father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939, Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family and strive to forget the nightmare of his past, a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in French as Hitler, mon voisin : souvenirs d'un enfant juif, by Editions Michel Lafon, Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex, in 2013"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781590518649 1590518640 |