My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin / In 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.' 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. 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 the agonizing 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.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Holocaust / Germany--Jews--History,modern--To1948.
Classification	943.2 GAY
Publisher	USA, Yale University Press, 1998
Subject	Germany--Jews--History, modern--To 1948.HolocaustGay, Peter: 20th June 1923-12th May 2015Gay, Peter, 1923-2015--Childhood and youth.Jews--Germany--Berlin--BiographyNational socialism--Germany--Berlin.Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Berlin.
Description	208
ISBN	9780300076707
URL	https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/My_German_Question.html?id=WqSrQgAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y