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URCHIN AT WAR IBD

NEW REFORMATION PUBLICATIONS
08 / 2021
9781948969581
Anglès

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What was it like to grow up as an urban urchin under bombs in Nazi Germany? Did he have a real childhood? Did he play pranks on grownups, as young rascals do in normal times? Could he be shielded against Nationalist ideology? InáUrchin at War, Uwe Siemon-Netto answers these questions in the affirmative with humour and drama.The son of a lawyer blinded in World War I, he describes the parallel universe in which his bourgeois family lived in Leipzig. He vividly writes about the night when his home was bombed out. He had to guide his father over puddles of green flames caused by phosphor to his grandmotherâÇÖs apartment where he discovered hours later that - of all people - Frenchmen had rescued his mother from the flames. He tells the story of how he stole a tram after an air raid, and how his family buried his grand-auntâÇÖs right hand because that was the only body part rescuers found under the rubble after her house was hit by a blockbuster bomb.Dr. Siemon-Netto, a journalist and academic, relates how in a country parsonage he was evacuated to, the pro-Nazi pastor beat him up for using French loan words and how he preached on Sundays that Hitler was GermanyâÇÖs saviour, prompting the courageous organist to whisper into the authorâÇÖs ears: 'HeâÇÖs lying! He is betraying our Lord!'When the Americans occupied Leipzig on HitlerâÇÖs birthday in 1945, the authorâÇÖs family feasted on half an egg in mustard sauce each.Urchin at Waráis an Ode toáOmi, his funny and intrepid grandmother Clara Netto, a grande dame who in the air raid shelter taught him basic Lutheran doctrine so well that it led him to interrupt his stellar career as a reporter at age 50 to study theology in Chicago and earn a doctorate in Boston.Urchin at Waráis the first volume in the 1517 PublishingâÇÖsáUrchin Seriesáabout theáextraordinary life story of a kid and high school dropout who became a sought-after newsman, who covered the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, and ended up being a Lutheran lay theologian.

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