Mischling, Second Degree (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ilse Koehn
- First Published: 1977
- Time of Work: 1926–1945
- Setting: Berlin and Ruegen Island, Germany; and Radoczowitz and Harrachsdorf, Czechoslovakia
- Principal Characters: Ilse Koehn, Margarethe Dereck Koehn, Ernst Koehn, Mutter Dereck, Vater Dereck, Edith Rotenthal Koehn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Girls, Politics, Adolescence, Autobiography, Prejudices or antipathies, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis
- Locales: Germany, Czechoslovakia
Form and Content
Ilse Koehn’s “Mischling,” Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany views Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, especially during World War II, from a perspective that has been largely overlooked: the viewpoint of a young girl. (In Nazi Germany, a Mischling was a person of mixed heritage; “first degree” meant one-half Jewish, while “second degree” was one-quarter Jewish.) Since the defeat of Hitler’s Germany, the vast majority of memoir literature, including the autobiographies of former Hitler Youth members, has been written by and...
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