The Day the Nazis Came
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The Day the Nazis Came

My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Day the Nazis Came

My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp

About this book

By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked with Jewish prisoners straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen- Belsen. He had nearly drowned, narrowly avoided being savaged by Alsatian guard dogs, been beaten by a pathological member of the SS and had his hand broken by a guard whilst attempting to feed a Russian prisoner.
The family kept going through three and a half years of imprisonment, reinforced by their strong sense of survival and their loving support for each other, before a dramatic and violent liberation by Allied forces ended their ordeal. Yet when they were eventually returned to Guernsey, it was to find that their tranquil home had been stricken and scarred by Nazi occupation.
Told through Steven Matthews' own memories, as well as writing from his mother's diaries and previously unpublished photographs, The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir. Depicting the world of Nazi prison camps through the eyes of a child – a world in which the real dangers often seemed trivial and every day was a new adventure – it tells not just of the prisoners' plight, but provides an important and poignant reminder that not every German soldier was cruel and hateful. Above all, it pays tribute to the preciousness of childhood, and shows that human kindness may flower in the unlikeliest of places.

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Information

Publisher
John Blake
Year
2016
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781786063366
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Forewords by the Lord Mayor of Biberach and the Bailiff of Guernsey
  6. Epigraph
  7. Map
  8. CHAPTER 1: The Lull Before the Storm
  9. CHAPTER 2: The Storm
  10. CHAPTER 3: Living with the Devil
  11. CHAPTER 4: The Sword of Damocles
  12. CHAPTER 5: Deportation
  13. CHAPTER 6: Dorsten Transit Camp
  14. CHAPTER 7: Journey to Satanic Regions
  15. CHAPTER 8: Early Days in Biberach Concentration Camp
  16. CHAPTER 9: Settling Down
  17. CHAPTER 10: My Four-Leaf Clover
  18. CHAPTER 11: The Long, Winding Road
  19. CHAPTER 12: The Beginning of the End
  20. CHAPTER 13: Liberation
  21. CHAPTER 14: Going Home
  22. CHAPTER 15: Afterwards
  23. Author’s Note
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. Sources
  26. Plates
  27. Copyright

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