A Dual Perspective
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A Dual Perspective

The German in an English Judge

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A Dual Perspective

The German in an English Judge

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When Konrad Schiemann escaped his home in Berlin to begin a new life in England, he didn't know what life awaited him there. An orphan who had lost both of his parents at the end of World War Two, he reached this new country to start again with the help of relatives. _x000D__x000D_Grown up, he decided to practise as a barrister in England and became a judge of the Appeal Court and finally of the European Court of Justice. After having his family and life in Germany torn apart by conflict, he forged a career around his desire to help in the construction of a peaceful Europe._x000D__x000D_Piecing together extensive correspondence from the war years, A Dual Perspective is the moving memoir of a German orphan who built a new future away from home, and the story of the family he loved and lost along the way. _x000D__x000D_It was only late in life that Konrad came to realise the extent of the extraordinary family into which he had been born: a great-great grandfather who presided over 5 parliaments and the first German Supreme Court, a great grandfather who was a friend of the last Kaiser and a grandfather who joined the Nazi Party despite the opposition of two members of the family later recognised by Israel as Righteous among the Nations for saving Jews from the Nazis. He learned of his mother's close acquaintance with one of the plotters of the assassination attempt on Hitler and it became evident that there was a powerful family history to be traced, and a story to be told.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. I: The Family Before the First World War
  7. II: The Growth of Nazism
  8. III: The Second World War
  9. IV: The Failure of the Plot: Awaiting Execution
  10. V: What Happened to My Relatives in the East
  11. VI: The End of the War and the Deaths of My Parents
  12. VII: An Orphan in Berlin
  13. VIII: Werner von Simson: A German Who Got Out Before the War
  14. IX: I Move to England
  15. X: The Choice Before Me: Germany or England?
  16. XI: The British Army
  17. XII: Two Mentors
  18. XIII: Cambridge
  19. XIV: The European Working Group 1962–8: An Attempt at a European Peace Corps
  20. XV: A New Family
  21. XVI: Music for a While
  22. XVII: A German at the Bar
  23. XVIII: High Court Judge
  24. XIX: The Conseil d’État
  25. XX: Uganda
  26. XXI: Deaths in the Family
  27. XXII: The Family’s Future
  28. XXIII: The Court of Appeal
  29. XXIV: The Freemason Controversy
  30. XXV: The Inner Temple
  31. XXVI: Sovereignty
  32. XXVII: The European Union
  33. XXVIII: The Things That Matter
  34. Appendix
  35. Notes