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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany Paperback - 2001
by Hans 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.
First line
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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- Title Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- Author Hans Massaquoi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-02-06
- ISBN 9780060959616 / 0060959614
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.36 x 1.13 in (20.42 x 13.61 x 2.87 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects National socialism, Racism - Germany
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012655089
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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