Edgar Feuchtwanger

Bertil Scali

Tür an Tür mit Adolf Hitler Edgar Feuchtwanger, der Neffe Lion Feuchtwangers, ist fünf, als seine Familie und er am Münchner Prinzregentenplatz einen neuen Nachbarn bekommen: Adolf Hitler. Buchstäblich als Augenzeuge erlebt Edgar von da an den Aufstieg Hitlers mit und beobachtet, zunächst kindlich-naiv, dann mit zunehmender Klarheit, wie die Nationalsozialisten Deutschland in eine brutale Diktatur verwandeln. Edgar Feuchtwanger wächst in behüteten, bildungsbürgerlichen Verhältnissen auf. Sein Vater ist Verleger des angesehenen Verlages Duncker & Humblot, seine Mutter Pianistin. In seinem jüdischen Elternhaus geben sich die Intellektuellen der Weimarer Republik die Klinke in die Hand: Schriftsteller, Maler, Musiker. Sein Onkel Lion, der berühmte Autor, geht ebenso ein und aus wie Carl Schmitt und Thomas Mann. Doch mit dem Aufstieg Adolf Hitlers, dem Nachbarn der Feuchtwangers, legt sich ein Schatten über Edgars Kindheit, der zunehmend düsterer wird. Mit immer neuen Schikanen werden die deutschen Juden gedemütigt und ausgegrenzt, der Vater verliert seine Stelle und wird verhaftet, als im November 1938 in ganz Deutschland die Synagogen brennen. Anrührend, eindrucksvoll, oft komisch und traurig zugleich berichtet der renommierte Historiker Edgar Feuchtwanger in seinen Erinnerungen vom Untergang der Weimarer Republik, vom Verlust der Kindheit und von einer großbürgerlich-jüdischen Welt, die es in Deutschland heute so nicht mehr gibt.

Erinnerungen an meine Kindheit im Nationalsozialismus

Als Hitler unser Nachbar war

Imperial Germany focuses on the domestic political developments of the period, putting them into context through a balanced guide to the economic and social background, culture and foreign policy. This important study explores the tensions caused within an empire which was formed through war, against the prevailing liberal spirit of the age and poses many questions among them: * Was the desire to unify Germany the cause of the aggressive foreign policy leading to the First World War? * To what extent was Bismarck's Second Reich the forerunner of Hitler's Third? * Did Bismarck's authoritarian rule permanently hinder the political development of Germany? Recent debates raised by German scholarship are made accessible to English speaking readers, and the book summarises the important controversies and competing interpretations of imperial German history.

Imperial Germany 1850-1918

An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a Jewish boy growing up in Munich with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German Jewish family: the only son of a respected editor, and the nephew of best-selling writer Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building across the street in Munich. In 1933 his happy young life was shattered. Hitler had been named Chancellor. Edgar’s parents, stripped of their rights as citizens, tried to protect him from increasingly degrading realities. In class, his teacher had him draw swastikas, and his schoolmates joined the Hitler Youth. From his window, Edgar bore witness to the turmoil surrounding the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, start a career and a family, and try to forget the nightmare of his past—a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor.

Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939

Hitler, My Neighbor

Hauptbeschreibung Edgar Feuchtwanger, 1924 in München geboren, Sohn des Verlegers Ludwig und Neffe des Schriftstellers Lion Feuchtwanger, erzählt von seiner Kindheit in Deutschland und seinem Leben in England. Als jüdisches Kind erlebte er den Alltag im Dritten Reich, aber auch die großen Zeitereignisse - Röhmputsch, Annexion Österreichs, Sudetenkrise - aus besonderer Perspektive: Seine Eltern wohnten gegenüber von Hitlers Privatwohnung. Nach Kristallnacht und Inhaftierung seines Vaters im KZ Dachau wurde Edgar, 14 Jahre alt, 1939 nach England geschickt. Dort wurde er in Institution.

Erlebnis Und Geschichte Als Kind In Hitlers Deutschland - Ein Leben In England Aus Dem Englischen Von Manfred Flugge

Peter Nailor

Soviet Union and the Third World

An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building opposite theirs in Munich. In 1933 the joy of this untroubled life was shattered. Hitler had been named Chancellor. Edgar's parents, stripped of their rights as citizens, tried to protect him from increasingly degrading realities. In class, his teacher had him draw swastikas, and his schoolmates joined the Hitler Youth. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family, and strive to forget the nightmare of his past--a past that came rushing back when he decided, at the age of eighty-eight, to tell the story of his buried childhood and his infamous neighbor.

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