Resources

Here are a few things which I have found useful / interesting to me so far, in no particular order.  If there are resources you recommend, please contact me.  Favorites/ones that have left a lasting impact are **

ORGANIZATIONS
Kriegsenkel.de - http://www.kriegsenkel.de/literatur/
Kreigsenkel Kongress - https://www.kriegsenkel-kongress.de/

Key Resources: German (no translations available at this time)

• **Kriegsenkel:  Die Erben Der vergessenen Generation (no translation available) - Sabine Bode, 2009
• **Wir Kinder der Kriegskinder:  die Generation im Schatten des Krieges (German only) - Anne-Ev Ustorf, 2008
• Die Vergessene Generation:  Die Kriegskinder Brechen Ihr Schweigen (German only) - Sabine Bode, 2004

Key Resources: English Language

• **Echoes of Trauma and Shame in German Families:  The Post-World War II Generations - Lina Jacob, 2020 
• **Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead - Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 16 September 2016
• Suffering and liberation in the age of therapy:  Germany's 'grandchildren of the Second World War - Lina Jacob, 2016

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTICLES PERTINENT TO THE KRIEGSENKEL THEME

• Postwar forced resettlement of Germans echoes through the decades - Anil Menson - The Conversation.com - Date unclear
• How the Children of Nazi Germany Remember World War II - BBC.com, 23 January 2018
• My Aunt Had a Dinner Party and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews - Haaretz.com, 28 June 2017.  Also, A Crime in the Family, by Sacha Batthyány (forthcoming). (For German-understanders, available via audiobook.)
• On Nazis, family and the question of forgiveness:  2 novelists confront the legacies of their families - Salon.com, 05 June 2017
• I Loved my Grandmother, But She Was a Nazi - Jessica Shattuck, New York Times, 24 March 2017
• The Lost Children of Europe: The Displaced Persons Children’s Centers in the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany and the Challenges for Relief Workers -  Ina Schulz - 2015.  Part of AICGS Memory Project
• Review:  ‘What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy’ - New York Times. Also What It's Like Growing Up with a Nazi - Teo Bugbee, The Daily Beast, 08 November 2015
• How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S. - NPR, 15 November 2014
• I Was a Nazi, and Here is Why - Helen Epstein, New Yorker, 29 May 2013
• Nazi Childhood Memories:  "It's all Still Very Present" - Spiegel Online - 28 March 2013
• Stories of Integration: Ethnic German Refugees and Expellees in (West) Germany 1945-2008 - Janine White, Thesis - Rutgers College, April 2008
• Still Yearning for the Lost Heimat? Ethnic German Expellees and the Politics of Belonging - Henning Süssner - German Politics & Society Vol. 22, No. 2 (71) (Summer 2004), pp. 1-26 (26 pages)
• Dealing with the Past Abroad:  German Immigrants' Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Their Relations with Jews in North America Since 1945 - Alexander Freund, GHI Bulletin, No. 31, Fall 2002
• Germans as Victims? Thoughts on a Post-Cold War History of World War II's Legacies - Robert G. Moeller

HISTORY

• **Savage Continent:  Europe in the Aftermath of World War II - Keith Lowe, 2013
• **The Forgotten Holocaust - Richard C. Lucas, 2012
• **Bloodlands:  Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Timothy Snyder, 2010
• „Dieses Buch ist kein Roman”  Jürgen Thorwalds „Die große Flucht“ zwischen Zeitgeschichte und Erinnerungspolitik - David Oels, Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 6 (2009), H. 3., 2009
• **Witnesses of War: Childen's Lives Under the Nazis - Nicholas Stargardt 2006
• Die grosse Flucht:  Es begann an der Weichsel das Ende an Der Elbe - Jurgen Thorwald. First published in 1949-50, numerous editions since. In English: Defeat in the East, also, Flight in Winter.  (Note: I have not read this yet.  I was told that this is the only book my father’s late-in-life partner ever saw him read.)

KRIEGSKIND MEMOIR

• Stretch:  Coming of Age in Post-War Germany - Gunter Nitsch, 2016
• **Weeds Like Us - Gunter Nitsch, 2010 
• On Hitler's Mountain:  Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood - Irmgard A. Hunt, 2006
• The War of Our Childhood - Wolfgang W.E. Samuel, 2002
• **German Boy - Wolfgang W.E. Samuel, 2001
• **Berlin Diaries:  1940-1945 - Marie Vassilchikov, 1988

POSTWAR KRIEGSKIND FICTION

• Women of the Castle: A Novel - Jessica Shattuck, 2017
• **Crabwalk - Gunter Grass, 2002  (seminal)

KRIEGSENKEL MEMOIR

• NEW:  Fatherland:  A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets  - Burkhard Bilger, 2023
• **Belonging:  A German Reckons with History and Home - Nora Krug, 2018
• Quiet Hero:  Secrets from my Father's Past - Rita Crosby - 2011

PODCASTS

• Sabine Bode Talks to Burkhard Bilger About German Children of War - (New Yorker podcast) - 17 October 2016
• **The Ratline - (BBC) Philippe Sands
• Life After the Holocaust:  Stories of Holocaust Survivors After the War  - (U.S. National Holocaust Museum) 

VIDEO

• My curated YouTube playlists
• Der Krieg in Mir (The War in Me) (German language only, documentary) 
• ANGST: Mein Vati und Ich  (Fear: My Dad and Me)  (English trailer, documentary, 2020) 

HOLOCAUST GRANDCHILDREN
Books

• Plunder:  A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure - Menachem Kaiser, 2021
• The Ratline:  The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive - Philippe Sands, 2021
• **East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" - Philippe Sands, 2017
• Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind - Sarah Wildman - 2014

Articles

• From Poland to Lithuania:  A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past - New York Times, 18 September 2017
• Champagne in the Cellar:  How I used the internet to find the man who saved my parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War - Atlantic.com, 13 July 2016
• Holocaust survivors' grandchildren call for action over inherited trauma - Jean West, The Guardian, 03 August 2015

POLAND + PROPERTY

• ‘They stole the soul of the city’:  How Warsaw’s privatization is causing chaos - The Guardian, 18 December 2017
• Restitution of private property in Poland:  The problem in context - Institute of World Politics, 16 May 2017
• Holocaust Survivors in Poland Find Restitution Claims ‘Like a Carousel’ - New York Times, 10 May 2017
• Poland’s true story: Coming to terms with a complex past - Krakow Post, 19 December 2016
• Holocaust survivors rush to beat deadline on Poland claims - Times of Israel, 06 December 2016
• Database helps Holocaust survivors reclaim Warsaw property - DailyMail.com 06 December 2016
• Poland Must Return Property Confiscated in Holocaust to Rightful Owners - Newsweek, 16 August 2016
• New Polish Property Restitution Law Slams Door on Jewish Heirs, Expert Says - Haaretz.com, 13 December 2016
• A Mission to Reclaim Nazi-seized Property - Jerusalem Post, 18 November 2013
• The German chancellor's Polish roots - dw.com, 23 March 2013
• Poland’s lost property - Financial Times, 25 March 2010
• 70 years on, Poland's WWII wounds haven't healed - San Diego Union Tribune, 30 August 2009
• Central Europe's Aristocrats Want Ancestral Fortunes Back - dw.com, 29 July 2009
• Ousted by Poland In 1945, Germans Want Homes Back - Wall Street Journal, 11 August 2004
• Germans claim 'Third Reich' Polish property - The Telegraph, 15 February 2004
• Confiscation of Jewish Property in Europe, 1933–1945: New Sources and Perspectives - USHMM,  2001
• A Map of Its German Past Unnerves a Polish Town : Europe: Police have confiscated thousands of the guide. Critics charge it was designed for onetime Nazi occupiers - Los Angeles Times - 26 February 1995