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100 1 $aKoch, Eric,$d1919-2018.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81040494
245 10 $aHilmar and Odette :$btwo stories from the Nazi era /$cEric Koch.
260 $aToronto :$bMcClelland & Stewart,$c1995.
263 $a9509
300 $aix, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tThe Koch Family Tree --$tThe Netter Family Tree --$g1.$tThe Phone Call from Washington --$g2.$tOdette --$g3.$tThat was the way we did things then --$g4.$tAll right, she sighed, then come to tea tomorrow --$g5.$tKiel, Early July 1989 --$g6.$tMunich, Late July 1989 --$g7.$tYour father's race, please --$g8.$tHerrlingen, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Berlin --$g9.$tFear in the Bones --$g10.$tHanns Arens --$g11.$tSearch and Research --$g12.$tThe Salon --$g13.$tTell me - is this woman crazy? --$g14.$tLili Marleen --$g15.$tOnly the Fuhrer can help you now --$g16.$tOur Declaration for the Fuhrer --$g17.$tThe Letters --$g18.$tAxel --$g19.$tThe Lowest Depths --$g20.$tThe Little House in the Woods --$g21.$tA Gathering in Buhl.
520 $aPart detective story, part biography, this is the fascinating tale of Hilmar and Odette, both born illegitimately in Germany before the Second World War, both half-Jewish, both brought up by "Aryan" families.
520 8 $aEric Koch, having discovered that his well-to-do family has two skeletons in the closet (Odette is his half-sister and Hilmar is his step-cousin), embarks on a search into his family history and into the very different fates of these two "Half-Jews" who grew into adults as the Nazi party came to power.
520 8 $aHilmar's adoptive mother discovers he is a Jew, and (despite his being a dutiful, even loving, son) when the opportunity arises denounces him to the Gestapo. Hilmar's increasingly desperate attempts to escape deportation and stay with the woman with whom he has fallen in love prove futile. He finally falls victim to the machinery of oppression and is sent to Auschwitz.
520 8 $aBy contrast, Odette, never suspecting that she is part-Jewish, ascends the social ladder and comes to hobnob with the Nazi boheme in her Berlin salon. To ingratiate himself with the right people, her publisher husband dreams up new forms of propaganda to help the Nazi cause.
520 8 $aHilmar and Odette's parallel stories advance in step through this book, each casting light on the other. And around the fringes of their lives move the spectres of Napoleon, Joseph Goebbels, and Lili Marleen. The narrator's detective tale becomes a third story, as he probes his family's past and explores the shadowy territory where personal uncertainties and frailties meet the implacable sophistry of Nazi ideology.
600 10 $aKoch, Eric,$d1919-2018$xFamily.
600 10 $aNetter, Hilmar.
600 00 $aOdette,$d1911-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97056627
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070466
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
651 0 $aGermany$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105263
650 0 $aJews$zGermany$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106104
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