Shadowland - The Story of Germany Told By Its Prisoners

As Nelson Mandela said, 'a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.' Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of Germany's prisoners, and thereby shines new light on Germany itself. The story begins at the end of the Second World War, in a defeated country on the edge of collapse, in which orphaned and lost children are forced to live rough, scavenging and stealing to stay alive, often laying the foundations of a 'criminal career'. While East Germany developed detention facilities for its secret police, West Germany passed prison reform laws, which erected, in the words of a prisoner, 'little asbestos walls in Hell'.Shadowland is Germany as seen through the lives, experiences, triumphs and tragedies of its lowest citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Colvin, Colvin Sarah
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781789146271
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-627-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Memoirs, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Second World War, c 1950 to c 1959, Prisoners of War, Autobiography: historical, political and military, c 1940 to c 1949, West Germany, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), East Germany, Ddr, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General