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Hitler, My Neighbor
Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood | Edgar Feuchtwanger
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"An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family, and strive to forget the nightmare of his past--a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor"--Provided by publisher.
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EvieBee
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This is an excellent memoir, translated from French. In it, Edgar recounts the 10 years he lived across from Hitler in a quiet Munich neighborhood. With a chapter for each year (1929-1939), Hitler‘s obscure rise to power starts to have disastrous effects on Edgar‘s family and their circle of friends. Such a great book! The author is 92 and finally decided to write his memoir of this period in time. Highly recommend!

bibliobliss That sounds so interesting! 7y
TheBookStacker Intriguing! I love all WW2 era nonfiction! 7y
EvieBee @Readage It really was! I usually struggle a little with non-fiction but this was a breeze to read through. 7y
EvieBee @TheBookStacker Oh, you‘ll love this then. So good! 7y
bibliobliss @EvieBee 👏🏼😉 7y
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EvieBee
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Wow. Hogwash. Finishing this up and it keeps getting eerier and eerier. Can‘t put down. Must come up for air!

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EvieBee
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Now that‘s the kind of library I aspire to have, but in the meantime, I too enjoy gazing at my books. Don‘t you?

Sweettartlaura I LOVE looking at my books! Reorganizing them, re-shelving them, just... being around them 7y
EvieBee @Sweettartlaura Me too! My husband thinks I‘m nuts and although I own a lot of Kindle books, I don‘t get the same satisfaction as perusing my shelves. 7y
Sweettartlaura Nope, nowhere near it, @EvieBee - physical books are like magic - so soothing. I suppose it‘s like plants for some people. 7y
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DocBrown I don‘t often catch myself gazing on my books, but I did today and thought, ‘those are fine looking books!‘ Lol 7y
batsy Yes 😊 7y
MicheleinPhilly All the time! 7y
EvieBee @Sweettartlaura I never thought of it like that! So true! 7y
EvieBee @mdhughes72 Haha! They need reassurance too. 7y
EvieBee @batsy 🤓🤗 7y
EvieBee @MicheleinPhilly I like to check in on them at night before I go to sleep. Like children. 😄🤓 7y
MicheleinPhilly I stand in front of my shelves while I brush my teeth. 😬 7y
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EvieBee
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I asked my library to purchase this book in November, and it finally arrived! Going to jump right in.

#CurrentlyReading #WWII

LeahBergen This sounds great! 7y
EvieBee @LeahBergen It‘s really interesting so far! 🤓♥️ 7y
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