The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590513797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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W. Powell said Could Have Been Better. The potential for this book being an engrossing read seemed just out of reach for this author. What I'd hoped to be an intense and ear-catching essay on victims confronting the human enforcers of their victimization never developed and left me disappointed. I shouldn't have expected so much from what starts as entries in a guest book at a villa.The author states that she was motivated in writing this book by her curiousity of why no open hostility between the very different guests staying at the witness house was ever reported. Maybe it was the social skills and . ""I have to speak for those they murdered."" according to E. Bukowsky. Christiane Kohl's "The Witness House," translated from the German by Anthea Bell, is an account of what happened when "Nazis and Holocaust survivors [shared] a villa during the Nuremberg trials." In 1980, Bernhard von Kleist, a seventy-nine year old man who was a long-term houseguest of Kohl's parents, took out a worn brown leather album. It was a visitors' book that included signatures of such people as Rudolf Diels, founder of the Gestapo and an inveterate womanizer; journalist Eugen Kogon, a long-term inmate of Buchenwald concentration camp; Fritz Wiedemann, t. REL Stuart said Good Background on the Nuremberg Trials. Very interesting reading about the different witnesses, holocaust survivors, and Nazis living in a villa together for the Nuremberg trials. Some of them are a reminder that monsters walk among us. And that some of us can survive terrors beyond what we could ever imagine.This book opens talking about the main character, the beautiful Countess Ingeborg Kalnoky and her story and how she came to be the matron of the villa. The book then focuses turn by turn on the people that came to be members of the villa and their experiences and impressions of their stay and expe
All rights reserved. Kohl's skill as a writer has enabled her to create a powerful postwar portrait of life inside the villa amid denials, guilt, and bitter memories. Kálnoky, who spoke four languages, was instructed to "keep things running smoothly," which she did, often entertaining the "motley assortment" of guests with her amusing anecdotes and practical jokes, in addition to helping them prepare for courtroom appearances. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This meant that "former Nazis and members of the Resistance were under the same roof." Kohl's detailed account begins with the recruitment by Americans of the 36-year-old Hungarian Coun
Her book, Der Jude und Das Mädchen (2002), was the basis of Joseph Vilsmaier’s feature film Leo and Claire. Christiane Kohl has worked as a correspondent to the Cologne Express, a press officer for the Environment Ministry in Hessen, and, from 1988 to 1998, an editor with Der Spiegel. She has won a number of translation awards in the UK, the USA, and Europe. She live
The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.. Presiding over the affair was the beautiful Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky (a woman so blond and enticing that she was described as a Jean Harlowe look-alike) who took great pride in her ability to keep the household civil and the communal dinners pleasant. A comedy of manners arose among the guests as the urge to continue battle was checked by a sudden and uncomfortable return to civilized life. The trial atmosphere extends to the small group in the villa. Agitated victims confront and avoid perpetrators and sympathizers, and high-ranking officers in the German armed forces struggle to keep their composure. This highly explosive mixture is seasoned with vivid, often humorous, anecdotes of those who had basked in the glory of the inner circles of power. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. Autumn 1945