Postcards to Hitler : a German Jew's defiance in a time of terror /
"Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to Adolf Hitler as rivetingly told by one of their descendants. As the narrative begins Benno Neuburger, a modest German land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer, meet at...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to Adolf Hitler as rivetingly told by one of their descendants. As the narrative begins Benno Neuburger, a modest German land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer, meet at a seder in Laupheim and soon marry. The year is 1907, a relatively prosperous, optimistic time for German Jews. But in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in the First World War, Munich becomes the epicenter of German fascism fed by national resentment and racial madness, reflecting simmering European rivalries and colonialism. Postcards to Hitler is a deeply research history drawn from personal interviews and archival documents including Benno and Anna's final letters -- written amid a slow-moving parade of horror as the frail boundaries between themselves and the Holocaust ultimately vanish."--Page [4] of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 456 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781685900557 9781685900540 1685900542 1685900550 |