By Debbie Pinfold
This e-book considers how and why German authors have used the kid's standpoint to provide the 3rd Reich. Authors as assorted as Günter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, and Christa Wolf have all used this angle, and this increases the query as to why it really is the sort of well known technique of confronting the 3rd Reich. This research asks if it is an evasive method, a method of gaining new insights into the period, or a method of gaining knowledge of a brand new language. This increases matters imperative to the post-war German aesthetic.
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