"Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!"
Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
by Hans J. Massaquoi
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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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Sociology, Blacks, Racism, Social conditions, Nonfiction, National socialism, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Blacks -- Germany -- Biography., Racism -- Germany., National socialism., Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945., New York Times reviewed, Blacks, germany, Blacks, biography, Germany, social conditions, Rasism, Nazism, Black peoplePlaces
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Destined to witness: growing up black in Nazi Germany
2001, Perrennial
in English
- 1st Perrennial ed.
0060959614 9780060959616
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"Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!": Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
2001, Knaur
Taschenbuch
in German
- 2. Auflage
3426618540 9783426618547
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Destined to witness: growing up black in Nazi Germany
1999, W. Morrow
in English
- 1st ed.
0688171559 9780688171551
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