A Short Thousand Years

A Childhood in the Third Reich

Robert Hallmann

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English

FONTHILL
04 November 2019

Autobiography: historical, political & military; History; European history; Social & cultural history; Second World War

In 1933 Germany became a dictatorship under the Great War veteran Adolf Hitler. He pulled the country out of depression and set it to work, reducing unemployment by undertaking extensive public works and building the first autoroutes in the world. He then resumed conscription and rearmament. All opposition had been eliminated and all power centred in that one man, whose boasted promise was a German Empire that would last 'a Thousand Years'.

The author was born in 1935. Ten years later millions had died, much of the continent lay in ruins, his country was shamed and the 'thousand years' came to a fiery end.

Others experienced worse, but for a ten-year-old with explosions all about him and with the world seeming to be burning the war made a vivid impression. His Westphalian village consisted largely of traditional farms and homesteads built of wattle and daub--often still shared by livestock. Most of the male population had been called up to fight Hitler's wars and foreigners made up much of the workforce. General Patton's Third Army lit up the village with phosphor grenades from several mountains away. The world seemed to be coming to an end.

By: Robert Hallmann
Imprint: FONTHILL
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 678g
ISBN: 9781781557358
ISBN 10: 1781557357
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword: Start of a Journey; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Remblinghausen: A Village in Wartime;2 Tales from the Tailors' Parlour; 3 Even Angels Make Mistakes; 4 A Tea-Cosy Saint Nicholas; 5 The Magic of Christmas; 6 Survival Lessons; 7 A Plague of Cousins; 8 Healing and Wheeling; 9 Early School Days; 10 The Prolific Chicken; 11 The Green Arbour; 12 The Rye Harvest; 13 The Hambummel; 14 Prisoners on the Land; 15 The Wild Man of the Woods; 16 Visitors and Bombs; 17 The Snow Princess; 18 The Old School by the Churchyard; 19 The Brazen Trout; 20 Uncle Engelbert and the Allies; 21 Messages from the Front; 22 Grandmother's Death; 23 My Window on the World; 24 Casualties of Our War; 25 The Ruhr Pocket and the Wider View in Hindsight; 26 An Early End to a Reich Supposed to Last `A Thousand Years'; 27 The Grown-Up's View; 28 The Handcart Funeral; 29 Dangerous Games; 30 The Poles' Dilemma in Victory; 31 Crutches of Hope; 32 A New Beginning; 33 Swapping to Survive; 34 The Gift of an Apple; 35 Church Matters; 36 Father's Return; 37 A New House; 38 No Fun in Wartime: Schutzenfest Restarted in 1948; 39 Belated Facts of Life; 40 Wirtschaftswunder; 41 In the Steps of Gutenberg; 42 Travels with My Father; Bibliography.

ROBERT HALLMANN was born in rural Westphalia, and in his early years he knew little but war. In 1945 he was ten when the American Third Army fired much of the village. His father returned from Russia in 1948. He trained as compositor at a print works in the nearest town and in 1955 took a job in Holland and then in South Wales. A spell in Hertfordshire followed and Dublin. In 1960 he joined an advertising agency in Mayfair, London, as typographer and designer. Two years later he went freelance. Since retirement he has published nine books and contributed to many more.