07/03/2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1665757000?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
I have the honor of introducing to you a book that will have a lifelong impact on you and everyone else that reads it. Especially meaningful in our current times, this book tells the true story of two men, on different sides of their country's destiny, and how they lived different lives in the face of that destiny. Compelling, revealing, and a story that can teach us all something about living within our families and our society. Here's what the publisher has to say about "A Life Outside My Father's Shadow:"
"In 1936, the year Fritz Schwalm was born, Adolph Hi**er had high approval ratings. Fritz's parents supported the national socialist state, and his father was an SS officer employed in the Race and Settlement Office (Rasse and Siedlungs Hauptamt, RuSHA). The office became the focus of a military tribunal of the Nuremberg trials, and his father was sentenced to ten years in prison. Decades later, after his father's death, Fritz discovered his diaries, penned during the first four years in captivity that included the trial.
In a fascinating memoir, Fritz begins by sharing his father's journals that detail his thoughts about Germany's successes and failures under the Hi**er regime, beginning with his internment in a camp near Hamburg, Neuengamme. In the following section, Fritz chronicles his own life growing up under the N**i regime. After revealing how the defeat of Germany in 1945 and its consequences confronted him with traditional political and social norms, he leads others through the events of his subsequent life, rich in adventures and free choices, stark contrasts of what his life would have been in a society governed by rigid social norms and ideological biases.
A Life Outside My Father's Shadow shares the contrasting perspectives and views of a German SS officer father and his son as the events of a brutal war transformed the world."
I hope you will order your own copy or read it on Kindle.
A Life Outside My Father's Shadow: A Memoir Spanning Two Generations in Germany
