On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
A World War II, Biography, Memoir book. But most- and worst- of all, as we and all the world slowly learned about the full extent of Hitler's...
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war -- and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime -- aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she...
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- ISBN: 9780060532178 / 60532173
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When I tried to sing by myself, I felt sad and empty, for inevitably my father's favorite songs came to me, and before I got to "und auf den Wiesen blhen die Blmelein rot und blau" (and on the meadows bloom the little flowers red and blue), I had to hide and cry. He was buried somewhere in France, and I was sure no one had planted a flower on his resting place. Who would have, for a soldier who had fought for Hitler? Irmgard A. Hunt, On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood // But most- and worst- of all, as we and all the world slowly learned about the full extent of Hitler's Final Solution, we realized that all Germans, no matter what they had suffered or whether they had participated in any way in the atrocities, would bear guilt, shame and dishonor, probably forever. Irmgard A. Hunt, On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood // On the day I learned of Vati's death, my outlook on life changed profoundly. I had discovered that a good day could never be trusted to remain good, indeed, a good day would inevitably lead to disaster, and I must always be prepared for the worst. The glass was now half empty. Irmgard A. Hunt, On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood //
Many people are interested in understanding how the German people could allow such a monster to take over their country. How could they let him destroy people just because they weren't Aryans? This woman was a child living in Berdesgarden during that time and even sat on Hitler's knee for a photo. Her story is important in getting an... A fascinating viewpoint of a child's life in Berchtesgaden from the early 1930s through to 1947. Particularly interesting were the political divisions within her family between her grandparents who were anti-nazi and her parents who were in favour of Hitler. I think some people who reviewed this book are confused, because many of the complaints I've seen talk about how it doesn't go beyond the perspective of the woman who wrote it, who was just a child during the war. But that's exactly what the book is - a memoir of a childhood in wartime, not a history of WWII in Berchtesgaden. If you...
