Postwar Germany, according to the writer Manfred Jurgensen, who grew up there, was “a period which often posed much more danger than the war itself. Severe deprivation, starvation and death were everywhere. This generation grew up without any real parental guidance and direction, and living through the years where all norms of society were virtually …
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Aug 28
My Father, the Mensch
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father, My Life, My mother
- Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, Basel, Berlin, Berne, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Claudia von Aleman, Communists, Düsseldorf, Eberhard Bethge, Ernst Röhm, Eugen Kogon, France, Frankfurt, Fürstenhagen, Gestapo, Hans Schulz, Heinz Brüggensiecker, Helmut Wolf, Hitler, Ilse Margret-Vogel, Johannes Schlingensiepen, Krupp, Kurt Scharf, Manfred Jurgensen, Margot Nicolaus, Martin Niemöller, Nazi Party, Otto Fricke, Paul Schulze zur Wiesche, SA, Sigmund Freud, Social Democrats, Soviet Union, Ursula Hegi, Victoria Barnett, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Niemöller, William Manchester
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Jul 28
About My Father (2)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
(Continued from About My Father (1)) Those “trials by fire” were not far off. After a year of study in Basel, in 1938 Albrecht returned to Germany. He spent approximately a month in Berlin, finishing his theological studies. In early summer of 1938 Albrecht spent almost a month traveling in the UK, visiting London and …
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