About this title: In 1998, Schneider, in her sixties, is summoned from Italy to the nursing home in Vienna in which her 90 year old mother lives. The last time she has seen her mother is 27 years earlier, when her mother asked her daughter to try on her SS uniform which she treasures, and tried to give her several items of jewellery, the loot of holocaust victims, which Schneider rejected. Prior to that, the last time she had seen her mother was in 1941 (when she was 4 and her brother 19 months old), when her mother abandoned her family in order to pursue her career as an SS officer. As the conversation with ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780143035176ISBN:0143035177
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 166 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0143035177 Standard used condition-Same quality you would find in your local bookstore. This is a new unread book that received the above wear during its handling. Has remainder mark. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker & Co
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780802714350ISBN:0802714358
Description: Very Good in very good jacket. Dust jacket has slight wear to corner and spine tips. Pages have no marks, bends or tears. Binding tight. Appears unread. Not a remainder. read more
Binding: book Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780143035176ISBN:0143035177
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 166 pages. 7.00 x 5.00 x 0.50 in. 4.8 oz. A compelling memoir of Nazi Germany describes how the author's mother abandoned her family to pursue her career as an SS officer, her final meeting with her mother many years later in a nursing home, and her struggle to come to terms with her mother's lack of repentance for her horrific past. Reprint. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099443742ISBN:0099443740
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099443742ISBN:0099443740
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099443742ISBN:0099443740
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Description: Very good. Very neat and clean. Hardback-first edition with complete number line published by Heinemann in 2004-book is in English translated from Italian by Shaun Whitesdie. No inscriptions. Dustcover has some creases at the edges. UK seller. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780099443742ISBN:0099443740
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Description: Good. Ships from the UK. front flyleaf missing Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: NEW/NEW (hb). When she was a child, her mother deserted her and her family to join the Nazi S.S. "The old, mad Germany comes to life again, " says Coetzee. No marks or wear, not clipped, unused condition. 2004, Walker hardbound, 166 pp. ISBN 0807214358 read more
"A horrific account of Helga's growing up without her parents as well as physical and mental abuse by her mother and stepmother. Her real mother joined the Nazi Ss and was in charge of horrible torture of the Jews. Helga doesn't see her real mom for a long time and then goes back to see her in a nursing home. This is a story also of their dialogue and the truth of what her mother had done."
"I just had to read this book because the premise is so unbelievable. The author's mother voluntarily abandoned her husband and children to become a Nazi guard at Auschwitz. It's very difficult to believe someone would do that. The author's mother is an absolutely unlikable human being. Besides the horrible things she did to her family and with her life, she's just a nasty woman. I don't understand how the nursing home where she lived was so accepting of her, almost cherishing her. They put up with her history, her irrational behavior; they even allowed her to keep her Nazi uniform in the closet! One thing that was missing from this book was history. Why did the author's mother turn to Nazism and desire to become an Auschwitz guard? Who may have influenced her to take this path in life? She alludes to a man but never develops that. What was the relationship like with her husband? Was there any indication that her mother might abandon her family? I know the author was young when her mother left but didn't she ever talk to her father about it? Ultimately this book left too many questions unanswered. Much of it seemed unbelievable. And it wasn't well-written. I guess it didn't need to be since the story is so incredible but it would have been nice."
"while the book itself was interesting, in a disturbing way (as most books that deal with this subject matter are) i felt like i lacked the context to really relate to helga, or wrap my mind around the story. i think it's because it centers around the 48 hours in which she meets and speaks to her mother, rather than providing the backstory leading up to this meeting. i wanted more. what was her brother's deal? what was her father like? what was it like for helga to grow up in the conditions she did, and what was it like for her to become a mother herself? to quote another reader's thoughts, without this context, the book basically read as a brief meeting between strangers."
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