LEADER 03687nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910455286803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73134-X 010 $a9786611731342 010 $a0-300-13314-6 010 $a0-585-34757-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133141 035 $a(CKB)111004366653086 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000207374 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207374 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237415 035 $a(PQKB)10585911 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420365 035 $a(DE-B1597)485009 035 $a(OCoLC)952733556 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133141 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420365 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210248 035 $a(OCoLC)923592567 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366653086 100 $a19980527d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy German question$b[electronic resource] $egrowing up in Nazi Berlin /$fPeter Gay 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc1998 215 $axii, 208 p. $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-07670-3 311 $a0-300-08070-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tONE Return of the Native -- $tTWO In Training -- $tTHREE The Opium of the Masses -- $tFOUR Mixed Signals -- $tFIVE Hormones Awakening -- $tSIX Survival Strategies -- $tSEVEN Best-Laid Plans -- $tEIGHT Buying Asylum -- $tNINE A Long Silence -- $tTEN On Good Behavior -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939-"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary eloquence and analytic acumen, Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings-then and now-toward Germany and the Germans.Gay relates that the early years of the Nazi regime were relatively benign for his family: as a schoolboy at the Goethe Gymnasium he experienced no ridicule or attacks, his father's business prospered, and most of the family's non-Jewish friends remained supportive. He devised survival strategies-stamp collecting, watching soccer, and the like-that served as screens to block out the increasingly oppressive world around him. Even before the events of 1938-39, culminating in Kristallnacht, the family was convinced that they must leave the country. Gay describes the bravery and ingenuity of his father in working out this difficult emigration process, the courage of the non-Jewish friends who helped his family during their last bitter months in Germany, and the family's mounting panic as they witnessed the indifference of other countries to their plight and that of others like themselves. Gay's account-marked by candor, modesty, and insight-adds an important and curiously neglected perspective to the history of German Jewry. 606 $aJews$zGermany$zBerlin 606 $aNational socialism$zGermany$zBerlin 606 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945 606 $aJews$xPersecutions$zGermany$zBerlin 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews 615 0$aNational socialism 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xPersecutions 676 $a943/.155004924/0092 700 $aGay$b Peter$f1923-$0131744 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455286803321 996 $aMy German question$92450965 997 $aUNINA