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Catharina Fleckenstein 

 

 

 

UPCOMING: BOOK RELEASE WITH READING 09.11.2024

 

Reading and discussing: the authors, Britta Panzer and Wolfgang Gellert

 

  “MENSCH SEIN.

  The invisible wounds:

  Aftermath of war and captivity” 

 

  is a literary documentation of the experiences of a young man who experienced

  a relatively carefree childhood in Mainz in the 1920s, became an

  army radio operator in Norway during the Second World War and was

  taken prisoner at the end of the war. He was comparatively lucky.

  Nevertheless, this time left deep scars.

  Many years later he wrote down his experiences. 

  "Everything that is not suffered and resolved to the end comes back",

  Hermann Hesse.

  With this in mind, we try to trace what our father experienced in the

  formative years of his youth and growing up.

  How his experiences and stories affected us daughters we tell from the

  perspective of the young and old children.

  The memoirs are presented from a scholarly perspective in essays by

  Dr. Carmen Scheide entitled “German prisoners of war in the French occupation zone of

  southern Baden: The Dépôt secondaire 231 B in Singen from 1946 to 1948” and

  Monika Scheide "Locked away - art from prisoner of war camps".

  Published by Dr. Carmen Scheide 

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