Fatherland : a memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets / Burkhard Bilger.
"What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780385353984
- Physical Description: x, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2023]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-312). |
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Albright Memorial Library | 920 BILGER (Text) | 50686016294840 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | 940.53 BIL (Text) | 37268003165388 | AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | 940.5337 BIL (Text) | 33240005163194 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 940.53 Bil (Text)
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00157945 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Boyertown Community Library | 940.5337 BIL (Text) | 33249025663455 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | 940.5337 G639B (Text) | 85131001878355 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Carbondale Public Library | 920 BILGER (Text) | 50688010865518 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked Out | 05/06/2024 |
Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults 940.53 BIL Nonfiction (Text) | 34001001439270 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | 940.5337 BILG (Text) | 36446002087917 | Adult Recent Reads | Available | - |
Highland Community Library | 940.5337 BIL (Text) | 35610001016950 | HGHM Non-Fiction | Available | - |