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Prague in danger, the years of German occupation, 1939-45 : memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war, Peter Demetz

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Prague in danger, the years of German occupation, 1939-45 : memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war, Peter Demetz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prague in danger

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

166390153

Responsibility statement

Peter Demetz

Review

"With this book, the scholar Peter Demetz focuses on the six short years when Prague was under German occupation in World War II - a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was a boy then, living in Prague as a "first-degree half-Jew, " according to the Nazis' terrible categories, and here he joins his objective chronicle of what happened to his beloved city during the war with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when German troops marched to Hradcany Castle and Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain."

Sub title

the years of German occupation, 1939-45 : memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war

Summary

"Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence - a Prague that kept its German - and Czech - language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on pressThis complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenges of occupation and of war."--BOOK JACKET

Table Of Contents

The day of occupation -- The beginnings of the protectorate: 1939-41 -- Terror and resistance -- The end of the protectorate

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