Review: A Compelling Memoir
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2012
I highly recomend this book for anyone interested in the subject of the lives and times of people who survived persecution during and after World War Two. This is not (yet) another story about the holocaust or the attempted elimination of the European Jews, but rather a story about a different victim, of which little is ever told. This is the memoir of an Ethnic German girl who lived in what was before the second war, Czechoslovakia. Her story describes the fate of her family and other similar people after the Fall of the Third Reich, and how they were deprived, persecuted, forced out or, in many instances, murdered by the Czechs and Slovaks in retribution simply for "being" German, ethnically, in blatant disregard of the fact that the vast majority of them were never actively involved in the war or even members of the National Socialists Party, but rather, considered themselves to be Czechoslovakian, just like their neighbors.That war took a toll on many peoples and a great many innocents suffered because of it, including many Germans. This book gives the reader a rare insight into a further consequence of the war and shows us that truly, there are never any real winners in war.