"That Time Cannot Be Forgotten": A Correspondence on the Holocaust Rating :
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Make Time to Read This
By H. Clary
This book was one of the best first person to first person histories of the German Holocaust. It deals with real issues that Germans on both sides of the war had to work through. If you need to get a wonderful history to understand what the "common" German man would have experienced and what it meant to him many years later upon reflection, this is a book for you to add to your library. The translation by Ivan Fehrenbach is right on the money. Both of the author's are intellectually honest and thorough. The use of letters made the reading personal,yet it always would give a great back and forth "conversation" that you could follow.
Get this book. You will be glad you did.
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Caught in the headlights
By M. Wahl
I found this book while searching for something about Schifferstadt, Germany, where many of my ancestors emigrated from in the mid-1800's. I wasn't disappointed! This correspondence of Dr. Emil Sold and Paul Friedhoff takes place in the late 1990's across the Atlantic and is richly informative, not only of the Schifferstadt area of the Palatinate in times past, but also of the lives of these survivors of WWII. Both men were not politically active, and tend to try to come to grips with the vision of God and Truth that their respective Catholic and Jewish cultures expected them to just roll along with and pass on to future generations. Emil Georg Sold seems like the more optimistic of the two....Paul Friedhoff the more wary, and the title is taken from a line in one of his letters. Both men ask the question "how could God allow this to happen?", and yet both are also aware that there are still men today asking "how can I make another Holocaust happen....how can I sweep my enemies aside...etc.?". Friedhoff was convinced that almost all Nazi era Germans knew of the Holocaust, yet, judging from the media & political savvy of most modern people, this seems unlikely.
Both Friedhoff and Sold helped many people during their lives, each in their own ways, are respectful, wise elders, and can add to our store of human understanding.
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In a gripping exchange of letters written in the closing years of the 20th century, two men struggle to come to terms with the signal event of their time, the Holocaust. Born in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany in the early part of the 20th century, both bore witness to the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust. But their perspectives were entirely different. Emil Sold was a Catholic who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Paul Friedhoff, a Jew, escaped from Hitler’s Germany and fled to the United States. The two men never met. When he was sent a book written by Sold about the Jews in the region where he grew up, Friedhoff decided to contact the author. A half-century after circumstances had placed them in different worlds, they suddenly found themselves in a correspondence that covered the many issues of that earlier time, in particular those involving the Holocaust—racism, hatred, religion, philosophy, government, and education. Despite the obstacle of never having seen one another, the two became friends. Their discussions often lead to conflict and only sometimes end in resolution, for theirs is not a genteel rehashing of generally accepted views. They tackle difficult issues and do not blunt their arguments for fear of offending the other. The result is an honest and open exchange of letters that speak as much to the future as they do about the past.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1821960 in Books
- Published on: 2002-03-29
- Released on: 2002-03-29
- Original language:German
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.45" h x6.38" w x.91" l,1.22 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 232 pages
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