Aus Meiner Sicht (From My View) Excerpts from The Memoirs of Werner Mork

Growing Up in Hitler's Germany Werner Mork's descriptions of the life of an ordinary family in pre-war Germany paint a comprehensive portrait of the social and cultural milieu of the time. His discriptions and essays go a long way toward explaining (without justifying) how the German people so easily transitioned into the national catastrophe that was the Nazi Era.   Childhood from 1928 to 1933 - The Weimar Republic We Move to Aumund Mother Gets Her Way: We Move to Vulkanstraße 20 Blending in with the Worker's Kids at Lobbendorf Public School Private Lessons with Fraülein Tiemann Heinzi Herz: The Stinky Jewish Kid gets Beaten Up Antisemitism The Schiller School Professor Torborg Punishes Us with his Violin The Schoolgirls Bob their Hair Puberty Strikes - The Birds & Bees in the Streets Karl Will - Toughest Kid in School I dream of Gymnasium Long, Lovely Gerte Dances on our Behinds The Nationalistic Spirit in the Schools Old Ftitz Hero Worship The Negro Insult Albert Schlageter The Uniform of the Death's Head Hussars General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Kriegsflegerei: The Heroes of the Air Family Life Everyone Marches The Working-Class Girls are Easy We are Done with All that Drivel about Democracy The Painful Drudgery of Laundry Women's Status in the Third Reich Socialism We Near the Precipice The Crisis Begins The Launch of the Steamship "Bremen" No Work at the Vulkan Shipyards We Visit Our Family in Hamm Scandals, Affairs and Unrest Clear the Streets! The SA Marches The Looming Specter of Civil War Life of the Unemployed The Gang of Street Urchins Rough Indians A Baby on the Way Unemployment Hard Times Trickle Down to Us The Life of Working-class Kids     Werner Mork's extensive descriptions of his wartime experiences can be found here: A Private's Life in the Wehrmacht during WWII     I would love to hear your comments Contact me at: Daniel Setzer   For a view of the war in the Mediterranean theater from the American side see: Hymie's War