Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich

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Springer, 19 giu 2012 - 272 pagine
Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of courage, culture shock, persistence, and enduring hope in the face of unimaginable hardships.
 

Sommario

Introduction
1
CHAPTER 1 In the Third Reich
12
CHAPTER 2 Leaving Home
57
CHAPTER 3 Culture Shock and Community Creation in Shanghai
75
CHAPTER 4 In the Designated Area
126
CHAPTER 5 The End of the War
165
CHAPTER 6 After the War
177
CHAPTER 7 Auf Wiedersehen Shanghai But Where Do We Go?
187
CHAPTER 8 Another New Life
201
CHAPTER 9 My Life as a Refugee
221
Conclusion
234
Notes
247
Bibliography
255
The Narrators
261
Index
266
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STEVE HOCHSTADT is a Professor of History at Illinois College, USA. His books include Sources of the Holocaust (Palgrave, 2004).

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