berlin (germany)

A collection of impressionistic and political essays by German journalist Joseph Roth which reflect on the violent social and political factors which threatened the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.

Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.

The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.

Journal entries chronicle the experiences a young woman had while living in Berlin during the Russian conquest in 1945.

The author reveals for the first time his wartime journals as a young army officer assigned as an aide-de-camp to Adolf Hitler's last two army chiefs of staff.

Examines the influence of the civilian populace on German domestic and military policy during World War One, and focuses on how the German government reacted to food shortage riots in and around Berlin in 1916-1917.

Jewish sculptor Zeller tells of his childhood and adolescence in Nazi Germany.

Examines the effects of World War II on the people of Berlin, with emphasis on the city as the strategic center of Adolph Hitler's Nazi government.

Presents a memoir of a child who lived in Berlin during World War II and how it affected three generations of middle-class German women who endured the bombing, Russian and Allied occupation, the Berlin Airlift, and post-war recovery.