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Bezig met laden... Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (1999)door Hans J. Massaquoi
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I am interested in both Germany/ Nazis during WW II and in black history, so this was a natural for me to read. Quite a life he lived and it's a condemnation of racism in both Germany during the big war and in America about the same time. Also it has insights into colonialism in Africa. It's hard to believe the author and his white German mother survived Hamburg during the war and then later lived full lives in America. (His father was an African from Liberia with off and on high political status.) Kind of a long account but rewarding to read. ( ) Dies ist eine Geschichte des Unerwarteten. In "Destined to Witness" hat Hans Massaquoi eine wunderschön wiedergegebene Memoiren geschrieben - eine erstaunlich wahre Geschichte darüber, wie er als schwarzes Kind in Nazideutschland erwachsen wurde. Als Sohn einer prominenten afrikanischen und einer deutschen Krankenschwester blieb Hans Massaquoi bei seiner Mutter zurück, als Hitler an die Macht kam, nachdem sein Vater nach Liberia zurückgekehrt war, weil er um seine zerbrechliche Gesundheit besorgt war. Wie andere deutsche Jungen ging Hans zur Schule; wie andere deutsche Jungen geriet er schnell in den Bann des Führers. So war er niedergeschmettert, als er erfuhr, dass er als schwarzes Kind nicht für die Hitlerjugend in Frage kam. Sein Weg zu einer weiterführenden Schule und einem späteren Beruf war blockiert. Er lebte nun in der Angst, dass er jeden Augenblick hören könnte, wie die Gestapo an die Tür klopfte oder alliierte Bomben auf sein Haus fielen. Ironisch, bewegend und zutiefst menschlich - Massaquois Bericht über diesen einsamen Kampf ums Überleben ist voller Mut und Intelligenz. 5671. Destined to Witness Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, by Hans J. Massaquoi (read 21 Jan 2020) This book was published in 1999, Its author was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 19 Jan 1926, to a German who was a girlfriend of a a son of a Liberian consular official in Hamburg. He had minimal contact with his black fat5her as he grew up in Hamburg, and went to German schools and was often the victim of racist discrimination. The book tells the story of his growing up in interesting detail. He wanted to be a soldier but fortunately the Nazis would not permit that. After the war he went to Liberia where he was with his father for a bit, but they did not get along. Eventually the author arrived in the United States on a student visa, but was quickly drafted and was in the U.S. Army while the Korean War was going on, but never served except in the U.S. I found the account consistently interesting and good reading, and wished he had told more of his life afterwards, when he became an editor of Ebony magazine and met Joe Louis, Jimmy Carter, and other prominent folk. He also married and had two sons but never tells of his wife and very little of his sons. His mother eventually came to the U.S. as well. This book interested me much and I am lucky to have found it.. Wikipedia has article on him. He died in 2013. Interessant ist die Biografie von Hans Jürgen Massaquoi zweifellos. 1926 als Sohn einer weißen Mutter und eines schwarzen Vaters in Hamburg geboren wuchs der Junge als nicht-arisches Kind im dritten Reich auf. Seine komplizierte Herkunft ermöglichte es ihm aber, nach dem Krieg zuerst nach Liberia und dann nach USA zu gehen, wo er sich schließlich niederließ. Das Buch ist auch ein Beispiel von Resilienz, Chuzpe und Lebenswillen, vor allem aber auch von Mutter- und Sohnesliebe. Dennoch kann ich es nicht uneingeschränkt loben, weil der episodische, aneinandergereihte Erzählfluss kein echte Spannung aufkommen ließ. Vor allem gegen Ende habe ich größtenteils quergelesen. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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