Walter Laqueur

Generation Exodus (eBook, PDF)

The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr Ruth" Westheimer. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs and his own experiences as a member of this group of refugees, to paint a vivid and moving portrait of Generation Exodus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857712875
• Artikelnr.: 39141087

Autorenporträt

Walter Laqueur holds the Kissinger Chair for International Security Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the author of a score of books, including Terrorism, The Age of Terrorism, and The New Terrorism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
xi Introduction: Growing Up between Weimar and Hitler
1 Escape
29 Resistance
64 Israel: Immigration Jeckepotz
94 United States: Golden Country behind Paper Walls
129 World Revolution, or the Dream That Failed
161 Britain: Forever Refugees?
189 The Great Dispersal: Hotel Bolivia and Hotel Shanghai
215 Returning to Germany
241 Portrait of a Generation
268 Glossary
307 Bibliographical Essay
311 Index
329 Illustrations follow pages 116 and 232