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1 online resource (xix, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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desLibris. Books collection
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Contents |
Introduction / Elvi Whittaker -- The Reminiscences of Martha von Rosen. 1. From Geppertsfeld to the Oder. 2. From the Oder to the Elbe. 3. An End to Flight. 4. Life Under Soviet Occupation. 5. Marking Time. 6. New Surprises. 7. Reconnaissance. 8. Reunion. 9. The Last Return -- The Diary of Jurgen von Rosen -- Introduction / Elvi Whittaker. 1. Bellaria, Camp 14. 2. From Bellaria to Ile-de-France. 3. Forced Labour Camps in France. 4. Ried, Upper Bavaria -- Life in Canada: The Open World / Martha von Rosen -- Editor's Afterword: Some Anthropological Reflections on Ethnography, War, Ethnicity and Other Matters |
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Fifty years after the end of World War II, two unique narratives chronicle the final months of that desperate struggle in very personal and explicit terms. While cruelly separated from one another, Jurgen and Martha von Rosen have written two parallel accounts about the same years. Baron von Rosen's prisoner-of-war diary is a standing testimonial to the horrors of imprisonment. It reveals a picture of the "enemy," and the conduct of the Allied forces toward their captives, which may be quite foreign to conventional knowledge. The Baron who had been conscripted into the Afrika Korps, was captured by the Allies in Italy after Germany surrendered in 1945. Baroness von Rosen's memoir is a refugee's account of war. As a young woman fleeing from the advancing Russians, she travelled through a harsh winter landscape accompanied by her aged parents and her young children |
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These poignant stories clearly show the experience of the forgotten and homeless victims of war, no matter what side they happen to have been on |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954.
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Von Rosen, Martha, 1904-
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Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954 fast |
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Von Rosen, Martha, 1904- fast |
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Von Rosen, Juergen. nli |
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Von Rosen, Martha. nli |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
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Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography
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Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Immigrants
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Erlebnisbericht
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
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Canada
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Esten.
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Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954.
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Whittaker, Elvi W
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ISBN |
0585172498 |
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9780585172491 |
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9781552382899 |
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1552382893 |
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1895176247 |
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9781895176247 |
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