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My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin »

Authors: Peter Gay
ISBN-13: 9780300080704, ISBN-10: 0300080700
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: November 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Peter Gay

Book Synopsis

Peter Gay, a biographer of Freud and a historian of Victorian culture, examines his life as a teenager in Berlin in the 1930s. He takes a psychological look at the questions many American Jews have: Why did you stay after 1933? Didn't you see the Holocaust coming? This sensitive profile of Gay's adolescence years makes a remarkable read.

Chicago Tribune - Lucie Prinz

An intensely personal document...[and] a moving testament.

Preface	ix
ONE Return of the Native	1
TWO In Training	21
THREE The Opium of the Masses	48
FOUR Mixed Signals	57
FIVE Hormones Awakening	84
SIX Survival Strategies	92
SEVEN Best-Laid Plans	111
EIGHT Buying Asylum	138
NINE A Long Silence	155
TEN On Good Behavior	185
Acknowledgments	207

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