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In transit : narratives of German Jews in exile, flight, and internment during "The Dark Years" of France / Ruth Schwertfeger.
- Title
- In transit : narratives of German Jews in exile, flight, and internment during "The Dark Years" of France / Ruth Schwertfeger.
- Author
- Schwertfeger, Ruth
- Publication
- Berlin : Frank & Timme, 2012.
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- Description
- xix, 290 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the narratives of German Jews who fled from the Nazi Reich to France in 1933-40 or, in some cases, were deported in the early stage of the war, focusing on their representations of the "phony war" period and the "Dark Years" of the German occupation and the Vichy regime (1940-44). The narratives under discussion vary from works of fiction written by prominent writers, such as Seghers, Werfel, Feuchtwanger, Koestler, and Döblin, to memoirs by less known people and audio-visual testimonies by rank-and-file survivors; some of the latter were children during the war and later gave accounts of their childhood in their writings. Foreign Jews bore the brunt of the maltreatment under the Vichy state - both at the hands of the French government and the German occupiers, both as the despised "boches" and as Jews. The narratives provide accounts and interesting perspectives on the exile and flight, as well as on internment in numerous French camps and "reception centers", such as Gurs, Le Vernet, Les Milles, Rivesaltes, Rieucros, and Tence.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Personal narratives – Jewish
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9783865963840 (hd.bd.)
- 3865963846
- LCCN
- ^^2012356966
- OCLC
- 779874446
- SCSB-11169432
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library