A Dual Perspective : The German in an English Judge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schiemann, Konrad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism.

Judges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Whitefox Publishing Limited, 2022.

Summary:

When Konrad Schiemann escaped his home in Berlin to begin a new life in England, he didn't know what life awaited him there. An orphan who had lost both of his parents at the end of World War Two, he reached this new country to start again with the help of relatives. _x000D__x000D_Grown up, he decided to practise as a barrister in England and became a judge of the Appeal Court and finally of the European Court of Justice. After having his family and life in Germany torn apart by conflict, he forged a career around his desire to help in the construction of a peaceful Europe._x000D__x000D_Piecing together extensive correspondence from the war years, A Dual Perspective is the moving memoir of a German orphan who built a new future away from home, and the story of the family he loved and lost along the way. _x000D__x000D_It was only late in life that Konrad came to realise the extent of the extraordinary family into which he had been born: a great-great grandfather who presided over 5 parliaments and the first German Supreme Court, a great grandfather who was a friend of the last Kaiser and a grandfather who joined the Nazi Party despite the opposition of two members of the family later recognised by Israel as Righteous among the Nations for saving Jews from the Nazis. He learned of his mother's close acquaintance with one of the plotters of the assassination attempt on Hitler and it became evident that there was a powerful family history to be traced, and a story to be told.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

I: The Family Before the First World War

Eduard von Simson: President of Parliaments and of the Supreme Court

Theodor Schiemann: adviser and friend of the Emperor William II

Paul Schiemann: politician

My Schiemann grandparents

My Simson grandparents

II: The Growth of Nazism

A historical reminder

Nazism and my parents

Tensions

Great-aunt Elisabeth

III: The Second World War

My grandparents

My own memories

My mother’s occupation

My mother in Berlin

The introduction to Stauffenberg

What is to be done with Konrad?

The Stauffenberg Plot 1944

IV: The Failure of the Plot: Awaiting Execution

Christmas 1944 in Berlin

V: What Happened to My Relatives in the East

Christmas 1944 in the Baltic

Refugees followed by the first wave of Russians

Rapes, suicides and terror in Altschlage, and yet some kindness 1oo Generated by AI.

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Other Format:

Print version: Schiemann, Konrad A Dual Perspective

ISBN:

9781915036735

OCLC:

1350450878