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Goodbye To The Mermaids: A Childhood Lost In Hitler'S Berlin (Volume 1),New
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Goodbye To The Mermaids Conveys The Horrors Of War As Seen Through The Innocent Eyes Of A Child. It Is The Story Of World War Ii As It Affected Three Generations Of Middleclass German Women: Karin, Six Years Old When The War Began, Who Was Taken In By Hitlers Lies; Her Mother, Astrid, A Rebellious Artist Who Occasionally Spoke Out Against The Nazis; And Her Grandmother Oma, A Generous And Strongwilled Woman Who, Having Spent Her Own Childhood In America, Brought A Different Perspective To The Events Of The Time. It Tells Of A Convoluted World Where Children Were Torn Between Fear And Hope, Between Total Incomprehension Of Events And The Need To Simply Deal With Reality.In One Of The Relatively Few Recollections Of The War From A German Womans Perspective, Finell Relates What Was For Her A Normal Part Of Growing Up: Participating In Activities Of The Hitler Youth, Observing Nazi Customs At Christmas, And Once Being Close Enough To The Fhrer At A Rally To Make Eye Contact With Him. She Tells Of How She First Became Aware Of The Yellow Star That Jews Were Forced To Wear, And Of Being Asked To Identify Corpses From A Bombed Apartment House. She Also Depicts The Lives Of People Tainted By Hitlers Influence: Her Halfjewish Relatives Who Gave In To The Strain Of Trying To Remain Unnoticed; A Favorite Aunt Who Was Gassed Because She Was Old And Had Broken Her Hip; And A Friend Of The Family Who Was Involved In The Abortive Putsch Against Hitler And Hanged As A Traitor.When American And British Forces Intensified Air Raids On Berlin In 1943, Finell Observed The Stoical Valor Of Women During The Bombings, Firestorms, And Mass Evacuations. Not Yet A Teenager, She Witnessed The Battle For Berlin And The Mass Rapes Perpetrated By Conquering Russian And Mongolian Troops. Order Was Restored After The American And British Troops Arrived. The Marshall Plan Jumpstarted An Economic Recovery For West Germany, Provoking The Russians To Blockade Berlin. From 1948 To 1949 The Americans And British Kept Berlins Residents Alive With The Airlift. But Even Though Food Was Flown In, The People Of Berlin Continued To Go Hungry. Deprivation Forced Berliners To Look Inward And Face Their Collective Guilt As They Withstood The Threat Of Soviet Occupation During These Postwar Years.This Eloquent And Touching Story Tells How A Decent People Were Perverted By Hitler And How A Young Girl Ultimately Came To Recognize The Father Figure Hitler For The Monster He Was. From A Time Of Innocence, Karin Finell Takes Readers Along A Nightmarish Journey In Which Fantasies Are Clung To, Set Aside, And At Last Set Free. Goodbye To The Mermaids Presents Us With The Revelation That Human Beings Can Survive Such Times With Their Souls Intact.
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