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The book is an interesting account of being a historian in Germany in the decades after 1945
The author searches for cohesiveness among the movements of the twenties and thirties
The text is unique in its examination of the generation that came of age between the two world wars
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Beginnings
Chapter 2. School years
Chapter 3. O du mein Österreich...
Chapter 4. America-coming down to Earth
Chapter 5. Going to and fro upon the Earth: On being a soldier
Chapter 6. Du bist ein wanderer...
Chapter 7. Mit dem Gesicht nach Deutschland
Chapter 8. Living in "a world come of age"
Afterthoughts
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Born in Berlin of an Austrian family of Jewish background
Klemens von Klemperer studied in Vienna until 1938 when he was forced to emigrate to the United States. He continued his studies at Harvard University, which were then interrupted from 1943 to 1946 by his service in the US Army. After receiving his PhD in History from Harvard University, he taught at Smith College, and after his retirement, at neighboring institutions.
Summary
This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the "other" Germany - the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.
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"An intriguing view of a historian's journey through the last century... a pleasure to read. With this memoir, von Klemperer joins the ranks of other historian memoirists such as Peter Gay, Felix Gilbert, and Werner Angress. It is a thoughtful and interesting account of what it was like to be a conservative historian of Germany in the decades after 1945."�����Catherine Epstein, Associate Professor of History, Amherst College
