TIME WAS Death of a Junker

by Heinrich Hanser ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Another postponement from November lists (see page 536 in bulletin 10/15). ""The story of the German danse macabre which preceded the present war, as told by one of the Junker class, who during and after the last war, found his world collapsing around him. He experimented with many ways of living, at sea, as a medical student, in iron mills, as a writer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, as publicity man for the Sarrasani Circus, for the Hamburg-American Line, as roving reporter, with an anti-Hitler bias. He shows the power-hold of the 'anti-republican, anti-democratic, anti-pacifist' Junkers and how they helped bring about the conditions that were fertile soil for Nazi Germany; he pictures the early Hitler as 'pie in the sky' German-style; he traces his own desire to believe in the Leader, his reasons for rebelling against the existing government, and eventually leaving the country in March. Has a more authentic note than some of the books (such as I Was a Nazi Flier); more in the class with Convert to Freedom. Thoughtful picture of Germany, examination of cause and effect, in presenting a German's picture of Germany.

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Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1941

Categories: NONFICTION