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Quando i martoriati prigionieri dei campi di concentramento e di sterminio furono liberati, l'orrore delle atrocità naziste venne alla luce per intero. A stento si può immaginare l'enorme sollievo provato in quel momento dai prigionieri. Tuttavia, per chi era sopravvissuto all'inimmaginabile, l'esperienza della liberazione fu un lento e sfibrante percorso di ritorno alla vita. In questa indagine senza precedenti sui giorni, mesi e anni successivi all'arrivo delle forze alleate nei campi nazisti, uno dei più importanti storici dell'Olocausto utilizza fonti archivistiche e testimonianze dirette, scritte e orali, per raccontare le nuove odissee che i prigionieri liberati dovettero affrontare e le grandi difficoltà incontrate da chi li liberò nel tentativo di ridare un senso alle loro vite in frantumi. Dan Stone si concentra sui sopravvissuti: sul loro senso di colpa, sullo sfinimento, le paure, la vergogna che provavano per essere ancora vivi e il devastante dolore per i famigliari perduti, sugli enormi problemi di salute, e sulle loro successive richieste di abbandonare i campi sfollati per insediarsi in altri Paesi. L'autore non descrive soltanto gli sforzi che i liberatori (russi, inglesi, americani e canadesi) dovettero affrontare per soddisfare i bisogni immediati dei superstiti, ma prende anche in considerazione i problemi a lungo termine che influenzarono il mondo del dopoguerra, primo baluginare dell'imminente guerra fredda.
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- Pagine: 271
- Data di uscita: 28-02-2017
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Almost a hundred pages into this book, I wasn't too sure what the author was trying to achieve. All the quotes and interviews are taken from other books. The author doesn't seem to have carried out any new research of his own. And this gives the book a text book feel. But then I read this quote from Leggi tutto
An excellent account of the bittersweet road from camp inmate to survivor and the reclamation of shattered lives. Dan Stone is professor of modern history, Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published fifteen books on the Holocaust, genocide, and twentieth-century European history. In a high Leggi tutto
“The Liberation of the Camps” is a book that manages to make itself unique in a history genre that can feel a bit crowded at times. What sets the book apart is the liberal use of primary sources from a variety of different situations that occurred after liberation. Many of them, including the fact th Leggi tutto
Not quite what I was looking for as I want to hear how people personally dealt with leaving the camps and trying to reenter life. Stone's book is a scholarly text and it examines much of what happened with the camps so we leave with an understanding of how "liberation" was not what we would normally Leggi tutto
Disappointing and poorly researched for such an important and rarely spoken about topic. Sloppily done in many ways, but really beat the dead horse of the Evils of Communism by bringing it up every time the Soviets were mentioned and threw first hand accounts from them on the pile of propaganda whil Leggi tutto
Fairly readable and not too detail heavy, a nice mix of survivor testimony and wider context. Far more focused on the Western side of Liberation, Belsen, Dachau and Buchenwald so I wouldn’t recommend the whole thing if studying the camps liberated by the Soviets in the East.
Good info; tedious at times. Full review http://rannthisthat.blogspot.com/2015... on May 1
It seems to be a natural human inclination to put a gloss of simplicity over historical facts, to obscure the fractal and nuanced nature of real events with a reductive fairy tale happy ever after. For example the much vaunted 'Blitz spirit' was not a uniform and unanimous upsurge in plucky British
One of the best books i've ever read, I never want to read it again. A chilling retelling of the aftermath of the liberation of concentration and extermination camps, with both sources from the camps and their aftermath. The horrors people saw, experiences, and suffered through are beyond what most
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