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Heimat: A German Family Album
by Nora Krug
Can't really give a Star based rating for this one
The first quarter or so of the book i quite liked, but as we went along, the authors actions and motivations got weird and problematic.
I really liked the collage like illustrations, historical facts and documents and if the author would be much more critical, respectful and less self observed about this topic, i would've loved this book!
But sadly, that wasn't the case.
Definitely agree on the reviews, that say she acts really self centered. She's not telling a piece of history and how her family is involved in it. She seems to search for excuses and apologies to get rid of the shame she feels.
Her whole reasoning behind this book gets more and more questionable for me.
She so desparatly tries to find excuses for some family members, that were part of the NSDAP, it gets uncomfortable.
Also at some point she kind of stalks a person, to find out, if her grandfather REALLY was a nazi or if he was just too "cowardly". Meanwhile that person's mother was jewish and got taken away for a few months, shortly before the end of WW2... She knows that and still calls him, to find answers to justify her grandfathers actions.
At the end the book left a "bad taste in my mouth"
The first quarter or so of the book i quite liked, but as we went along, the authors actions and motivations got weird and problematic.
I really liked the collage like illustrations, historical facts and documents and if the author would be much more critical, respectful and less self observed about this topic, i would've loved this book!
But sadly, that wasn't the case.
Definitely agree on the reviews, that say she acts really self centered. She's not telling a piece of history and how her family is involved in it. She seems to search for excuses and apologies to get rid of the shame she feels.
Her whole reasoning behind this book gets more and more questionable for me.
She so desparatly tries to find excuses for some family members, that were part of the NSDAP, it gets uncomfortable.
Also at some point she kind of stalks a person, to find out, if her grandfather REALLY was a nazi or if he was just too "cowardly". Meanwhile that person's mother was jewish and got taken away for a few months, shortly before the end of WW2... She knows that and still calls him, to find answers to justify her grandfathers actions.
At the end the book left a "bad taste in my mouth"