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From: GWoelfle at aol.com <GWoelfle>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:16:52 EDT
One more plug for "Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis," by Tomi Ungerer. It's a story with many shades of grey. He mentions the atrocious anti-German propaganda in Alsace during and after World War I as well as the anti-French and anti-Alsacian oppression/terrorism by the Nazis. He mentions how the liberating American soldiers stole his family's last two jars of jam they were saving for the peace celebrations. He tells of French teachers after the war bullying those students who couldn't speak French (which was most everyone, since the Germans allowed only German.) In the end, Ungerer say, he chose a life "without boundaries."
Gretchen Woelfle Author
Received on Thu 08 Apr 1999 10:16:52 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:16:52 EDT
One more plug for "Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis," by Tomi Ungerer. It's a story with many shades of grey. He mentions the atrocious anti-German propaganda in Alsace during and after World War I as well as the anti-French and anti-Alsacian oppression/terrorism by the Nazis. He mentions how the liberating American soldiers stole his family's last two jars of jam they were saving for the peace celebrations. He tells of French teachers after the war bullying those students who couldn't speak French (which was most everyone, since the Germans allowed only German.) In the end, Ungerer say, he chose a life "without boundaries."
Gretchen Woelfle Author
Received on Thu 08 Apr 1999 10:16:52 AM CDT
