On the other side : letters to my children from Germany 1940-46 / by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg ; translated and with a preface and afterword by Ruth Evans ; publisher's afterword by Christopher Beauman
Wolff-Mönckeberg, Mathilde (1879-1958)
Language: English
Published by London : Persephone, 2007
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Fine paperback copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Not price-clipped. Series; Persephone book ; no. 75. Physical description; xxii, 205 p. : 1 geneal. table ; 20 cm. Subjects; Wolff-Mönckeberg, Mathilde (1879-1958) Correspondence. Mönckeberg family. World War, 1939-1945 Germany Hamburg Personal narratives, German. Hamburg (Germany) History Bombardment, 1940-1945 Personal narratives, German. Hamburg (Germany) Social life and customs 20th century. Hamburg (Germany) Biography. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- On the other side : letters to my children from Germany 1940-46 / by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg ; translated and with a preface and afterword by Ruth Evans ; publisher's afterword by Christopher Beauman
- Author
- Wolff-Mönckeberg, Mathilde (1879-1958)
- Publisher
- London : Persephone
- Publication year
- 2007
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1903155657
- ISBN 13
- 9781903155653
- Edition
- Revised Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
and in the Observer and a television documentary about the book, with
Margaret Tyzack acting `Tilli' and many original newsreel shots of a
devastated Hamburg, was shown in the autumn of 1979. The Preface, which fills in the background, is by Ruth Evans and the Afterword, which sets
the letters in the context of recent controversies about the Allied bombing
of German cities, is by Christopher Beauman.
Tilli Wolff-Mönckeberg was the daughter of a lawyer who later became Lord
Mayor. She was intelligent and well-educated but married very young and had five children. Unusually for the time, she and her husband separated
during the First World War and Tilli returned to Hamburg, did some translating and took in lodgers. In 1925 she married a Professor of English who later became Rector of Hamburg University. By the time the letters
begin, therefore, in October 1940, her personal life is slightly complicated, with her children living in far- flung places - her youngest daughter Ruth
is living in Wales - and her Hamburg relations are slightly disapproving
of her unconventional personal life. They would have been even
more disapproving if they had known that Tilli was keeping what
was in effect a diary: the discovery of the letters would certainly have
resulted in her and her husband's arrest. In the first one she writes, about the events leading up to the war, that the German people were led to believe that they had been wantonly attacked but `in truth this whole campaign had
been planned long ago, the Führer's blind lust for conquest, his megalomania being the driving force.' She adds, `for me nothing was more devastating
than the fact that nobody... stood up against this, but remained passive and weak.'
But ON THE OTHER SIDE is not a political book. Instead it is an
evocation of daily life in Hamburg during the war years and immediately afterwards (the months after May 1945 make up a third of the book, partly
because it was easier to write without the constant threat of bombing and partly because there was no danger in writing). `If you want to know what it was like to be a civilian in wartime Germany you must read this marvellous book' wrote Timothy Garton Ash in the Spectator in 1979, going on
to add: `The letters document the terrible suffering caused to the German civil population by Allied bombing. It is difficult to read these pages without feeling that this kind of bombing was worse than a mistake' (the issues
covered in the Afterword). However, this is not a harrowing book, it is gentle and domestic, human and humane - and Tilli did survive.
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