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About this book
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- I: The Family Before the First World War
- II: The Growth of Nazism
- III: The Second World War
- IV: The Failure of the Plot: Awaiting Execution
- V: What Happened to My Relatives in the East
- VI: The End of the War and the Deaths of My Parents
- VII: An Orphan in Berlin
- VIII: Werner von Simson: A German Who Got Out Before the War
- IX: I Move to England
- X: The Choice Before Me: Germany or England?
- XI: The British Army
- XII: Two Mentors
- XIII: Cambridge
- XIV: The European Working Group 1962–8: An Attempt at a European Peace Corps
- XV: A New Family
- XVI: Music for a While
- XVII: A German at the Bar
- XVIII: High Court Judge
- XIX: The Conseil d’État
- XX: Uganda
- XXI: Deaths in the Family
- XXII: The Family’s Future
- XXIII: The Court of Appeal
- XXIV: The Freemason Controversy
- XXV: The Inner Temple
- XXVI: Sovereignty
- XXVII: The European Union
- XXVIII: The Things That Matter
- Appendix
- Notes