Fatherland
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A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi
Party Chief, in this ",unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply
moving exploration of morality, family, and war", (Patrick Radden
Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)'The book we need right now' Atul
Gawande, author of Being MortalWhat do we owe the past? How to make
peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his
grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from
Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian,
she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war.
Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing
with age, and a secret history began to unfold.Karl Gonner was a
schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest.In 1940,
he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning
its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war
began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years,
till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them
from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and
accused of war crimes.Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious
collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his
country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out.What follows
is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and
serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across
Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, Fatherland is an
extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past
century, tracing one family's path through history's wreckage.For
readers of Bart van Es's The Cut Out Girl or Edmund de Waal's The
Hare with the Amber Eyes, this is a story of middle lands, torn
allegiances and loaded family inheritance.
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Burkhard Bilger
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Burkhard Bilger
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