Walter Kempowski
Born
in Rostock, Germany
April 29, 1929
Died
October 05, 2007
Genre
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All for Nothing
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28 editions
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published
2006
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Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
by
13 editions
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published
2007
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Marrow and Bone
by
9 editions
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published
1992
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Tadellöser & Wolff
12 editions
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published
1971
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Aus großer Zeit (Die deutsche Chronik, Band 1)
9 editions
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published
1981
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Uns geht's ja noch gold (Die deutsche Chronik #5)
9 editions
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published
1972
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Schöne Aussicht
7 editions
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published
1981
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Ein Kapitel für sich.
7 editions
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published
1978
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Das Echolot. Barbarossa '41. Ein kollektives Tagebuch.
2 editions
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published
2004
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Heile Welt
3 editions
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published
2000
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“They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.”
― Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
― Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
“As always when he went abroad, Jonathan regarded the German passport officers with a degree of wistfulness. Soon he would be placing himself under foreign sovereignty, a guest; he would have to hold his tongue instead of being allowed to demonstrate his superiority. When you'd started a world war, murdered Jews and taken people's bicycles away (in Holland) the cards were stacked against you.”
― Marrow and Bone
― Marrow and Bone
“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.”
― Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
― Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
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