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Bilger, Burkhard.
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Gönner, Karl, 1899-1979.
Bilger, Burkhard -- Family.
Ex-Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.
Teachers -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Bartenheim.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
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Bilger, Burkhard.
Gönner, Karl, 1899-1979.
Bilger, Burkhard -- Family.
Ex-Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.
Teachers -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Bartenheim.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
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Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets / Burkhard Bilger.
by
Bilger, Burkhard.
Random House, 2023.
Call #:
940.5337 B595f
Subjects
Gönner, Karl, 1899-1979.
Bilger, Burkhard
--
Family.
Ex-Nazis
--
Germany
--
Biography
.
Teachers
--
Germany
--
Biography
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
France
--
Bartenheim.
France
--
History
--
German occupation, 1940-1945.
ISBN:
9780385353984 (hc)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
x, 314 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312).
Summary:
"As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the
Germany
of their youth. Winters in the Black Forest, when the snow piled up to the eaves and haunches of smoked speck hung from the rafters. Springtime along the Rhine, when the storks came home to nest on rooftops. His parents were born in 1935 and had lived through the Second World War, but those stories, vivid as they were, had strange omissions. His mother was a historian, yet she rarely talked about her father’s relationship to the Nazis, or his role in the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from
Germany
, yellowed with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was an elementary school teacher and father of four when the war began. In 1940, he was posted to a village in Alsace, in occupied France, and ordered to reeducate its children
--
to turn them into proper Germans. He was a loyal Nazi when he arrived, but as the war went on his allegiance wavered. According to some villagers, he risked his life shielding them from his own party’s brutalities. According to others, he ruled the village with an iron fist. After the war, Gönner was charged with giving an order that led police to beat a local farmer to death. Was he guilty or innocent? A war criminal or just an ordinary man, struggling to do right from within a monstrous regime? Fatherland is the story of Bilger’s nearly ten-year quest to uncover the truth. It is a book of gripping suspense and moral inquiry
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a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in archives and villages across
Germany
and France. Long admired for his profiles in The New Yorker, Bilger brings the same open-hearted curiosity to his grandfather’s story and the questions it raises. What do we owe the past? How can we make peace with it without perpetuating its wrongs? Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century."--Publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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1
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