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050 00 $aD811$b.R573 2004
082 00 $a940.53/432142/092$aB$222
100 1 $aRitter, Maria.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003041617
245 10 $aReturn to Dresden /$cMaria Ritter.
260 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axxviii, 210 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Why did the German people tolerate the Nazi madness? Maria Ritter's life is haunted by the ever-painful, never-answerable "German Question." Who knew? What was known?" "Confronting the profound silence in which most postwar Germans buried pain and shame, she attempts in this memoir to give an answer for herself and for her generation. Sixty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, she reflects on the nation's oppressive burden and the persecution of the contemporary consciousness." "In probing the dark shadows of wartime, she reconstructs the voice of her childhood. With a determined search for remnants of her past during a visit to her homeland, Ritter retrieves memories and emotions from places, personal stories, and letters. As she interweaves them with events in her family's struggle to survive the war and its aftermath, she creates a tragic tapestry." "She recalls the weary odyssey from Poland to Leipzig with refugees in 1943 and remembers being sheltered there beside her grandfather. She returns to Dresden to recover her memories of the fire bombing in 1945. She revisits the remote Saxony countryside where she and her mother crossed the border from East to West Germany in flight from the Communists in 1949. She relives the pain of learning that her father "will never return from the war." On a Memorial Day many years later, Ritter's longstanding, unresolved grief overflows as she writes a posthumous letter to him. She suffers in the heartbreaking memory of her valiant mother, who overcame loss and grief along the road to freedom and a new home."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aRitter, Maria.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003041617
650 0 $aGerman Americans$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105192
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148482
650 0 $aForced migration$zGermany$zDresden.
650 0 $aRefugees$zGermany (East)
651 0 $aDresden (Germany)$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003012683.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hD811$i.R573 2004