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Walter Kempowski

Born

in Rostock, Germany

April 29, 1929

Died

October 05, 2007

Genre

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Walter Kempowski was a German writer. He was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 2,792 ratings · 405 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	Alles umsonst 3.98 avg rating — 1,646 ratings — published 2006 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside (Translation) 4.16 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tadellöser & Wolff 4.12 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marrow and Bone by Walter Kempowski, Charlotte Collins (Translator) 3.58 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uns geht's ja noch gold (Die deutsche Chronik 5) 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aus großer Zeit (Die deutsche Chronik, Band 1) 4.18 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ein Kapitel für sich. 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Echolot. Barbarossa '41. Ein kollektives Tagebuch. 4.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schöne Aussicht 4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heile Welt 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Deutsche Chronik (10 books)
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Quotes by Walter Kempowski

“They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.”
― Walter Kempowski, Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich

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“Perhaps that was the day when the bombed synagogue opened again. Or the one when I went to a cobbler who was repairing shoes with the leather from stolen Torah rolls. "I didn't know it was sacred leather," he said. We collected all the pieces together, and he refused the money that I tried to give him for a few ladies' shoes with Hebrew letters written in ancient ink on the soles.”
― Walter Kempowski, Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich

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“The American girls, undaunted, maintained their natural warmth, and in their unrivalled sympathy there appeared genuine maternal feelings that did not alter for national differences, but that was feeble consolation in this profound sadness over the fact that "being a human being among other human beings" only ever happens in dreams of a perfect world.”
― Walter Kempowski, Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich

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