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Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood

Name: Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
Brand: Other Press (NY)
SKU: 9781635425123
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Contributors:

Joachim C. Fest, Martin Chalmers (Translator), Herbert Arnold (Foreword by)

Publisher:

Other Press (NY)

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, History

Book Subcategory:

Memoirs, Europe, Wars & Conflicts

Book Topic:

Germany, World War II

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Release Date:

8/26/2025

ISBN 13:

9781635425123

Weight:

1.15 lbs

Size:

8.20 x 5.50 x 1.50 inches

Pages:

464

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.

Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around the world. Born in 1926, Fest experienced firsthand the rise of the Nazis, the Second World War, and a catastrophically defeated Germany, thus becoming a vital witness to these difficult years.

In this memoir of his childhood and youth, Fest offers a far-reaching view of how he experienced the war and National Socialism. True to the German Bildung tradition, Fest grows up immersed in the works of Goethe, Schiller, Mörike, Rilke, Kleist, Mozart, and Beethoven. His father, a conservative Catholic teacher, opposes the Nazi regime and as a result loses his job and status. Fest is forced to move to a boarding school in the countryside that he despises, and in his effort to come to terms with his father's strong political convictions, he embarks on a tireless quest for knowledge and moral integrity that will shape the rest of his life and writing career.

About the Author
Joachim Fest was one of the most important authors and historians of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1963 he worked as chief editor of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (North German Broadcasting), and from 1973 to 1993 as editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His biography Hitler (1974) has been translated into more than twenty languages. His other works include Inside Hitler's Bunker (2005), Speer: The Final Verdict (2002), and Plotting Hitler's Death (1996).

Herbert A. Arnold holds a PhD from the University of Würzburg and is a professor emeritus of German and Letters at Wesleyan University.

Martin Chalmers's recent translations include Summer Resort by Esther Kinsky and Brussels, the Gentle Monster: or the Disenfranchisement of Europe by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. In 2004 he was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for The Lesser Evil, his translation of the post-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer.

Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood

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