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)
Key Resources: English Language
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTICLES PERTINENT TO THE KRIEGSENKEL THEME
HISTORY
KRIEGSKIND MEMOIR
POSTWAR KRIEGSKIND FICTION
KRIEGSENKEL MEMOIR
PODCASTS
VIDEO
HOLOCAUST GRANDCHILDREN
Books
Articles
POLAND + PROPERTY
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