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Surviving World War Two Berlin - IAN-BURUMA-STAY-ALIVE
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1943
Surviving World War Two Berlin
Ian Buruma, author of Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945, Part One: Buruma focuses on the opening years of World War IIin Berlin and the daily moral dilemmas faced by ordinary people. He draws from his Dutch father Leo's letters as a forced factory worker alongside accounts from diarists, aristocrats, and dissidents. The discussion examines Goebbels' propaganda machine, lighthearted cinema entertainment designed as public distraction, the implementation of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, and the hidden lives of young Jews surviving underground as "U-boats." (1)
Surviving World War Two Berlin
Ian Buruma, author of Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945, Part One: Buruma focuses on the opening years of World War IIin Berlin and the daily moral dilemmas faced by ordinary people. He draws from his Dutch father Leo's letters as a forced factory worker alongside accounts from diarists, aristocrats, and dissidents. The discussion examines Goebbels' propaganda machine, lighthearted cinema entertainment designed as public distraction, the implementation of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, and the hidden lives of young Jews surviving underground as "U-boats." (1)