Good-bye to the mermaids : a childhood lost in Hitler's Berlin / Karin Finell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finell, Karin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finell, Karin--Childhood and youth.

Finell, Karin.

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Berlin.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Children--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.

Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949--Personal narratives.

Berlin (Germany).

Genre:

Personal narratives -- German.

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]

Summary:

"Memoir of a child living in Berlin during World War II. Tells how the war affected three generations of middle-class German women who lived through the bombing of Berlin, the Russian and Allied occupation, the Berlin Airlift, and the postwar recovery"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Good-bye to the Mermaids 7

Chapter 2 Skulls and Danzig 20

Chapter 3 Aunt Margaret and the Tapeworm 34

Chapter 4 My Father's House 49

Chapter 5 Hitler's Eyes 66

Chapter 6 Of Stalingrad and Vitebsk 81

Chapter 7 Swimming in Amber 101

Chapter 8 Friendly Fire? 114

Chapter 9 Quiet before the Storm 128

Chapter 10 The Russians 155

Chapter 11 Frau Komm! 173

Chapter 12 Black Bread and Song, White Bread and Tears 211

Chapter 13 The Winterfelds 233

Chapter 14 "Isms" 243

Chapter 15 Airplanes over Berlin 259

Chapter 16 Lilacs 282

Chapter 17 Oma's Heart 293

Chapter 18 The Mermaids' Room 304

Chapter 19 Fire and Ice 327.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0826216900

OCLC:

69992366

Publisher Number:

9780826216908