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Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

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Destined to Witness

Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

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This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. So he was crushed to learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that, at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door -- or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic,, moving, and deeply human, Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence.

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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
480

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Cover of: »Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!«
»Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!«: Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
Aug 01, 2012, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag
paperback
Cover of: Destined to Witness
Destined to Witness
2007, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!
Sep 30, 2004, Scherz Verlag GmbH
hardcover
Cover of: Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger. Meine Kindheit in Deutschland.
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger. Meine Kindheit in Deutschland.
September 1, 2002, Droemer Knaur
Paperback in German
Cover of: Destined to Witness
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
January 23, 2001, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
Cover of: Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger. 6 Cassetten. Meine Kindheit in Deutschland.
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger. 6 Cassetten. Meine Kindheit in Deutschland.
June 1, 2001, Lübbe
Audio Cassette in German
Cover of: Destined to Witness
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi
November 2001, Recorded Books
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
Cover of: Destined to witness
Destined to witness: growing up black in Nazi Germany
2001, Perrennial
in English - 1st Perrennial ed.
Cover of: ' Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger'. 6 CDs. Meine Kindheit in Deutschland.
' Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger'. 6 CDs. Meine Kindheit in Deutschland.
June 1, 2001, Lübbe
Audio CD in German
Cover of: "Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!"
"Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!": Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
2001, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co.
Paperback in German
Cover of: Destined to Witness
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
January 23, 2001, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: Destined to Witness
Destined to Witness
July 5, 2001, Fusion Press
Paperback
Cover of: Destined to witness
Destined to witness: my odyssey
1999, W. Morrow
in English
Cover of: Destined to witness
Destined to witness: growing up black in Nazi Germany
1999, W. Morrow
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: „Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!“
„Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!“: Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
1999, Fretz und Wasmuth
Hardcover in German

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"One beautiful summer morning in 1934, I arrived at school to hear our third-grade teacher, Herr Grimmelshauser, inform the class that Herr Wriede, our Schulleiter (principal), had ordered the entire student body and faculty to assemble in the schoolyard."

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OL7285721M
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0060959614
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