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Wir sind die Wolfskinder: Verlassen in Ostpreußen Paperback – March 1, 2014

German Edition by Sonya Winterberg (Author)
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  1. Language
    German
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    Piper Verlag GmbH
  3. Publication date
    March 1, 2014
  4. Dimensions
    4.72 x 0.87 x 7.36 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    3492302645
  6. ISBN-13
    978-3492302647
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Piper Verlag GmbH (March 1, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ German
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3492302645
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3492302647
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.72 x 0.87 x 7.36 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 250 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Officium1st
5.0 out of 5 stars It is not a happy book, and is often heartbreaking or even infuriating
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2016
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At the end of World War II, tens of thousands of civilians were fleeing the advance of the Soviet Army into East Prussia. During this flight, many children were lost, abandoned, separated from their relatives or orphaned as the result of the murder, death by illness or the starvation of those who were desperately trying to look after them. Left on their own, often at an extremely young age, some of these children tried to make it to Lithuania where rumor said that the farmers had food and would take them in. Most found only suffering and death, but a few would manage to overcome the odds and survive. Starting with childhood memories of Konigsberg before the war and ending with a return trip to East Prussia (now Kaliningrad) by two survivors in 2011, this book chronicles the fate of many of those who became known as “Wolfskinder.” It is not a political or academic tract and is written in in what is mostly conversational level German, which makes the book quite readable, even for those who may be out of practice in the language. It is not a happy book, and is often heartbreaking or even infuriating, such as when it details the bureaucratic nonsense that faced the Wolfskinder, many of whom had been denied schooling and who were therefore often illiterate, following the reunification of Germany and the independence of Lithuania after the fall of the Soviet Union. The book includes a number of pictures of those who have told their stories, and, although there is no subject index, it has a place index and a separate name index. It is well worth reading.
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Very good.
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Stephsy
5.0 out of 5 stars Empfehlenswert
Reviewed in Germany on March 9, 2024
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Über die Wolfkinder gibt es nicht viele Bücher, aber dieses ist auf jeden Fall empfehlenswert. Es wurde mit Zeitzeugen geschrieben und das spiegelt sich in diesem Buch sehr gut wieder. Die traurigen Erlebnisse wurden sehr detailgetreu wiedergegeben. Empfehlenswert
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mck48
5.0 out of 5 stars Why must the Innocent always suffer?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2018
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Heart-rending is the only word I can use to describe the fate of those children in Konigsberg and East Prussia at the end of the second world war. This book is written in mainly conversational German and, in terms of language is 'easy' to read. However, the content is harrowing as survivors tell of how the weakest and most vulnerable in society paid for the sins of the Nazis.
I was inspired to read this book having first seen the film 'Wolfskinder' on the Franco-German TV channel, ARTE. The film has been criticized in that being too lyrical in its portrayal of the idyllic countryside through which these children wandered in search of security and peace, it hid or censored or merely hinted at the horrors of what they were made to witness as well as undergo for themselves. The book pulls no such punches. As I read, I could not stop myself from substituting my grandchildren for the survivors and kept wondering, how can humanity be so utterly beastly to ones so young and vulnerable; already so traumatised?
One point of information: a previous reviewer refers to East Prussia as known today as Kaliningrad. It was Konigsberg that become known as Kaliningrad and British readers will want to know why our RAF felt the need to bomb Konigsberg as mercilessly as Dresden when if any city in Germany may be classed as 'guilty', Konigsberg, the home-city of the Enlightenment was surely the least guilty - one more horror the wolfskinder were made to witness.
There is hope in this book and the author as well as the survivors pay unending tribute to those people of Lithuania who at the time as well as in the subsequent years did so much and at great peril to their own well-being to give succour to these orphaned children.
Reading the book on Kindle if your Kindle has been loaded with a German Language Dictionary makes reading even easier still..
Thank you to Sonja Winterberg and those survivors who told her their story - it was revelation.
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alex pabst
4.0 out of 5 stars Hinterläßt tiefe Spuren
Reviewed in Germany on April 29, 2016
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Durch die Idee, das Schicksal vieler Personen mal genauer, mal nicht so tief zu durchleuchten, erhält man so etwas wie einen Überblick über die Bandbreite der Folgen dieser Phase des Krieges für den Einzelnen. Das Beeindruckende an dem Buch war für mich unter anderem, dass die haarsträubendsten Geschichten immer wieder auf nur einer halben Seite daherkommen. Man liest sie 2,3 mal, um sich zu vergewissern, dass das Verstandene jetzt wirklich da geschrieben stand.
Ich würde dem Buch gern 5 Sterne geben, bin mir aber nicht sicher, ob der Kunstgriff, die einzelnen Schicksale immer zeitlich parallel zu erzählen, die beste Wahl ist. Das Buch ist so aufgebaut, dass man in einem Kapitel erfährt, was einige Personen in diesem zeitlich begrenzten Abschnitt erlebt haben, im nächsten Kapitel andere Personen im nächsten Zeitabschnitt. Die große Anzahl von "Protagonisten" läßt einen aber irgendwann den Zusammenhang im Einzelschicksal verlieren, denn manche tauchen oft auf, andere im ganzen Buch nur 2 mal, möglicherweise mit nur 2 Geschichten, die einem aber vollkommen den Boden unter den Füßen wegziehen. Man kommt bald nicht mehr ohne das zum Glück vorhandene Personenregister aus und stückelt sich die Erlebnisse einer Person mit dessen Hilfe nochmal zusammen.

Alles in allem aber ein unbedingt lesenswertes Buch, dass einem zwar Konzentration abverlangt, aber sich tief in die Seele gräbt und einem erschütternde Einblicke in die Abgründe menschlichen Verhaltens in Extremsituationen einerseits und menschlichen Ertragens andererseits eröffnet.
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Punk76
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolut schrecklich, ergreifend, bewegung, tottraurig, erschütternd
Reviewed in Germany on November 29, 2023
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Mit Tränen in den Augen wird man zum "Zeugen" von schrecklichsten Ereignissen.
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susanne p.
5.0 out of 5 stars Man möchte nur weinen
Reviewed in Germany on May 17, 2019
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Auch meine Eltern wurden durch den Krieg ihrer Heimat beraubt. Mein Vater stammt von den Kapartendeutschen in der heutigen Slowakei und meine Mutter wurde in der Nähe von Danzig geboren. Während mein Vater noch Erinnerungen an seine Heimat hatte, war meine Mutter zu jung, um sich an ihre frühe Kindheit, die Flucht über die Ostsee und die Hungerjahre auf Rügen zu erinnern. Aber beide hatten mehr Glück, als die Menschen, deren Schicksale im Buch beschrieben wurden. Es ist so unglaublich, wozu Menschen im positiven wie negativen Sinne in der Lage sind. Umso enttäuschender die Haltung der reichen Bundesrepublik gegenüber diesen absoluten Verlierern des Zweiten Weltkrieges in jeder Hinsicht. Wir unterstützen so viele Menschen weltweit und die eigenen Landsleute werden vergessen, verdrängt aus dem Bewusstsein der deutschen Bevölkerung, nur noch den wenigen lebenden Vertriebenen im Gedächtnis. Meine innig geliebte Oma hat den Verlust der Heimat, so arm es dort auch war, nie verwunden. Mein Vater allerdings war froh, nicht dort sein Leben verbringen zu müssen. Es gibt so viele traurige Schicksale in diesem Buch und jeden Tag verschwindet ein Stück Geschichte mit den Kriegskindern von damals. Danke für dieses Buch.
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