Prague in danger : the years of German occupation, 1939-45 : memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war
"With this book, the scholar Peter Demetz focuses on the six short years when Prague was under German occupation in World War II - a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was a boy then, living in Prague as a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories, and here he joins his objective chronicle of what happened to his beloved city during the war with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when German troops marched to Hradcany Castle and Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain."
eBook, English, 2008
First edition
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008