Author: Stargardt, Nicholas,
Title: WITNESSES OF WAR - Children's Lives under the Nazis.
Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 2005, 1st edn., xviii, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a study of the effects of occupation on children during WW2, they who were not merely passive victims but also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings, or as they absorbed the brutal new realities of occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS, and within days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 children german jewish polish czech


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