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Destined to Witness

von Hans Massaquoi

Biography History

ISBN

0060959614

Verlag

William Morrow Paperbacks

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

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Memoir Biography Autobiography Historical Nazi Germany World War II Black Experience Racial Identity Survival Courage Coming of Age 20th Century History African Descent German History Hitler Youth Gestapo Allied Bombing Cultural Identity Human Rights Personal Struggle Historical Memoir Nonfiction Bildungsroman Social History Political History Emotional Resilience Discrimination Family Dynamics Cross-Cultural European History African History Literary Memoir.

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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.