Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

A Historian's Recollections and Reflections
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-584-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented, and in their shared thirst for knowledge and commitment to ideas they searched for cohesiveness among the glittering, holistic ideologies and movements of the twenties and thirties. The author’s scholarly work on the German Resistance to Hitler revealed to him those who maintained dignity and courage in times of peril and despair, which became for him a life’s pursuit. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the “other” Germany—the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klemperer, Klemens Von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Beginnings

Chapter 2. School years

Chapter 3. O du mein Österreich.

Chapter 4. America-coming down to Earth

Chapter 5. Going to and fro upon the Earth: On being a soldier

Chapter 6. Du bist ein wanderer.

Chapter 7. Mit dem Gesicht nach Deutschland

Chapter 8. Living in "a world come of age"

Afterthoughts

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Klemperer, Klemens Von
Born in Berlin of an Austrian family of Jewish background Klemens von Klemperer studied in Vienna until 1938 when he was forced to emigrate to the United States. He continued his studies at Harvard University, which were then interrupted from 1943 to 1946 by his service in the US Army. After receiving his PhD in History from Harvard University, he taught at Smith College, and after his retirement, at neighboring institutions.