{"product_id":"those-who-forget-my-familys-story-in-nazi-europe-a-memoir-a-history-a-warning-paperback","title":"Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe; A Memoir, a History, a Warning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeraldine Schwarz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaura Marris\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be\u003c\/b\u003e.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Riveting...we can never be reminded too often to never forget.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournalist Géraldine Schwarz's astonishing memoir of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II \"also serves as a perceptive look at the current rise of far-right nationalism throughout Europe and the US\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring World War II, Géraldine Schwarz's German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely \u003ci\u003eMitlaüfer\u003c\/i\u003e--those who followed the current. Once the war ended, they wanted to bury the past under the wreckage of the Third Reich. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her paternal grandfather Karl took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. She finds letters from the only survivor of this family (all the others perished in Auschwitz), demanding reparations. But Karl Schwarz refused to acknowledge his responsibility. Géraldine starts to question the past: How guilty were her grandparents? What makes us complicit? On her mother's side, she investigates the role of her French grandfather, a policeman in Vichy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe's process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology, overcome by a fog of denial after the war, and, in Germany at least, eventually managed to transform collective guilt into democratic responsibility. She asks: How can nations learn from history? And she observes that countries that avoid confronting the past are especially vulnerable to extremism. Searing and unforgettable, \u003ci\u003eThose Who Forget\u003c\/i\u003e \"deserves to be read and discussed widely...this is Schwarz's invaluable warning\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book Review).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGéraldine Schwarz is a German French journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. \u003ci\u003eThose Who Forget \u003c\/i\u003eis her first book. It won the European Book Prize, Germany's Winfried Peace Prize, and Italy's NordSud International Prize for Literature and Science and is currently being translated into eight languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaura Marris is a poet and translator whose translations include Louis Guilloux's novel \u003ci\u003eBlood Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is currently working on the new translation for Albert Camus's \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e.\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.34 x 5.53 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766137094432,"sku":"9781501199097","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/59ddcfc726a008603c5df5446e3075ec.webp?v=1780286385","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/those-who-forget-my-familys-story-in-nazi-europe-a-memoir-a-history-a-warning-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}