A Nazi Childhood is a disturbing and intimate portrait of Germany and the Third Reich from the recaptures perpective of a highly-perceptive child. A censored version of this memoir was first published in 1983. This is the posthumous, complete, uncensored story. As the war rages on, young Winifried's feelings of security and mormalcy within his family and country dissolve into fear and confusion. His father, an SS officer, disappears...Germany crumbles...the American occupation begins.
A Nazi Childhood is a disturbing and intimate portrait of Germany and the Third Reich from the recaptures perpective of a highly-perceptive child. A c...
In a powerful testimony to two men's struggle with AIDS, Weiss writes of caring for his dying lover in a posthumous publication that coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the emergence of AIDS. Written in the form of a short novel in which the names are changed (but presumably the events and the emotions are from life), the book charts the decline of Weiss's lover (dubbed Alexander in the memoir) from the first signs of the syndrome to his death in 1984 and the scattering of his ashes. Weiss, who died of AIDS in 1991, writes with unapologetic directness that can startle with its...
In a powerful testimony to two men's struggle with AIDS, Weiss writes of caring for his dying lover in a posthumous publication that coincides with th...
