Steven Karras

The Enemy I Knew (eBook, ePUB)

German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis-then returned to fight them as Allied soldiers-share their experiences: "Heroic, poignant [and] compelling." - The Daily News Even Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel struggled with the question: Why didn't the Jews fight back? But he finally concluded that the real question was how so many of them did. As he put it, "Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the strength-spiritual and physical-to resist?" In fact, over 10,000 German Jews fought in the Allied armies of World War II. This book honors those European-born combat veterans-refugees from the Nazi regime in Germany and Austria who faced their persecutors by joining the Allied forces in a fight against the country of their birth. These twenty-seven interviews take us into the unique and harrowing experiences of brave men-and one brave woman-whose service restored a sense of dignity and allowed them to rise above their former victimization. All burned with anger at the Germans who'd subjected them, often as young children, to cruelty in everyday life in their hometowns, and to ridicule in the national media. As soldiers who knew the language and psychology of the enemy better than any of their comrades, they struck back with newfound pride against the rampant injustice that had annihilated their families, destroyed their prospects, and subjected many of them to the worst forms of physical abuse, both random and terrifying. In The Enemy I Knew they tell their stories-and the world is richer for their heroic acts, and for their testimony. "It is rare to come across a book about a forgotten story from World War II, but Steve Karras has found one of the most compelling, little-known accounts from the war and he tells it brilliantly. Harrowing, breathtaking in parts, and completely absorbing." -Andrew Carroll, New York Times-bestselling editor of War Letters "Few stories can rival the ones told in The Enemy I Knew." - Library Journal (starred review)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zenith Press
• Seitenzahl: 321
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781616732493
• Artikelnr.: 37959230

Autorenporträt

Steven Karras is the co-director of the feature-length documentary About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II. He has taped nearly a thousand hours of video and audio oral histories and has amassed a considerable archive of unpublished personal memoirs, photographs, newspaper articles, family memorabilia, and individual war records. Steve, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a screenwriter and lives with his wife in Los Angeles.

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