| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... 08:29 - Mar 28 with 959 views | itfcjoe |
.....by Daniel Finkelstein.
The quite incredible, and harrowing story, of his parents families and the war.
His maternal Grandparents were German Jews, with his Grandfather basically the first person in Europe to note and publicise what the Nazi's were really like.......his paternal Grandparents were well to do Polish Jews based in Lviv (or Lwow as it was) who had to face the wrath of Stalin.
Concentration camps, gulags, fake Paraguayan passports, avoiding transport to death camps.....just a quite incredible story.
A really tough read in places, it isn't hammed up but is just excoriating detail of what it was like for them and just how inhumane both the Nazis and the Soviets were in the 2nd World War
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| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 08:42 - Mar 28 with 895 views | Hogger |
I heard a podcast interview with this guy (think it was Dan Snow's History Hit) - as you say, a truly incredible story |  | | |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:43 - Mar 28 with 806 views | Linners |
I've just bought (but not started yet) The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland which I also heard about on a podcast. Just an astonishing story of a guy that escaped from Auschwitz and then wrote a summary of what was happening for the Allies. |  | | |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:51 - Mar 28 with 755 views | tractorboy1978 |
There is a wonderful (or rather depressing/grim) documentary on Netflix called 'Turning Point - The Bomb and the Cold War' which I would recommend to anyone. | | | |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:52 - Mar 28 with 752 views | pablo_canooga |
Added this to the list. One of the most harrowing books I've read is Primo Levi - If This Is A Man/The Truce. Lost for words after reading it. |  | | |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 10:01 - Mar 28 with 716 views | bracknell_blue |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:43 - Mar 28 by Linners |
I've just bought (but not started yet) The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland which I also heard about on a podcast. Just an astonishing story of a guy that escaped from Auschwitz and then wrote a summary of what was happening for the Allies. |
I've read that and it is excellent. Doesn't paint the allies in a good light at times. |  |
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| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 10:18 - Mar 28 with 688 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:52 - Mar 28 by pablo_canooga |
Added this to the list. One of the most harrowing books I've read is Primo Levi - If This Is A Man/The Truce. Lost for words after reading it. |
I read “If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz” with a new introduction by David Baddiel this time last year. Harrowing. |  |
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| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 10:18 - Mar 28 with 687 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:43 - Mar 28 by Linners |
I've just bought (but not started yet) The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland which I also heard about on a podcast. Just an astonishing story of a guy that escaped from Auschwitz and then wrote a summary of what was happening for the Allies. |
I really enjoy reading both Freedland and Finkelstein. | |
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| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 12:24 - Mar 28 with 550 views | Radlett_blue |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 09:43 - Mar 28 by Linners |
I've just bought (but not started yet) The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland which I also heard about on a podcast. Just an astonishing story of a guy that escaped from Auschwitz and then wrote a summary of what was happening for the Allies. |
Yes, I read that recently on a friend's recommendation & it was good. I feel it's necessary to read something related to the holocaust from time to time to remind myself of how brutal man's inhumanity to man can be, while it also provides a (very) small excuse for some of the recent Israeli behaviour. |  |
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| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 12:29 - Mar 28 with 540 views | Plums |
| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 10:18 - Mar 28 by GlasgowBlue |
I really enjoy reading both Freedland and Finkelstein. |
I can highly recommend Philippe Sands too. His family connections with Lviv and where the story of East West Street takes him is also incredibly powerful.
The birth of human rights law should be a lesson to us all - dismantle it at our peril. |  |
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| Book recomendation - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad...... on 12:30 - Mar 28 with 538 views | Churchman |
Thanks. I’ll have to read that. Sounds fascinating.
I’m currently reading Ben Shepherd’s book Hitler’s Soldiers, The German Army in the Third Reich. Worth a read for anyone interested in that period. |  | | |
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