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On August 15 1944, defense officer Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for high treason at the People's Court. Eleven days later, he was executed in Ploetzensee prison.
Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a TV documentary about the events of July 20, images of her father in the court room suddenly appeared on screen. 'I stare at this man with the empty face. I don't know him. But I can see myself in him - his eyes are my eyes; I know I resemble him. I know I wouldn't be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all.'
In My Father's Country Bruhns tells the story of her search for her father. Looking deep into the past, she returned to Halberstadt in Northern Germany, where her ancestors, the Klamroth family, worked for generations as country merchants. She discovered photos, letters and diaries, documenting the fate of the renowned merchant family from Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of WWII, which she uses to tell a unique and unforgettable family epic.
Engaging with her family on both an emotional and political level, My Father's Country is a family memoir that is also a remarkable work of history, powerfully told and deeply touching.
Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a TV documentary about the events of July 20, images of her father in the court room suddenly appeared on screen. 'I stare at this man with the empty face. I don't know him. But I can see myself in him - his eyes are my eyes; I know I resemble him. I know I wouldn't be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all.'
In My Father's Country Bruhns tells the story of her search for her father. Looking deep into the past, she returned to Halberstadt in Northern Germany, where her ancestors, the Klamroth family, worked for generations as country merchants. She discovered photos, letters and diaries, documenting the fate of the renowned merchant family from Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of WWII, which she uses to tell a unique and unforgettable family epic.
Engaging with her family on both an emotional and political level, My Father's Country is a family memoir that is also a remarkable work of history, powerfully told and deeply touching.
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"'What an extraordinary story. I was spellbound... In the final stages, as the terrible finale approaches, I was almost too moved and appalled to go on reading - but also too moved and appalled to stop... A treasure.' Michael Frayn"
"A heart-rending, brave, utterly convincing book. You cannot read it without being moved to the core."
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"A heart-rending, brave, utterly convincing book. You cannot read it without being moved to the core."
The story of a German family from the late nineteenth century through WWI to WWII and after. A huge bestseller in Germany, it offers extraordinarily moving and riveting insight into the experience of being German in the last century, fit to stand alongside Gitta Sereny's biography of Albert Speer or Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0434017434
- ISBN 13 9780434017430
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- Number of pages352
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