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Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
William Morrow
February 2001
On Sale: February 6, 2001
480 pages
ISBN: 0060959614
EAN: 9780060959616
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Non-Fiction Memoir
This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness,
Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir --
an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black
child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a
German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when
Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile
health, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other
German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he
swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. So he was crushed to
learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the
Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an
eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that,
at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door
-- or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic,, moving, and
deeply human, Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle
for survival brims with courage and intelligence.
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