Banat Book List

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Atemschaukel Author: Herta Müller Roman, München : Hanser, 2009
ISBN: 3446233911
EAN: 9783446233911

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Banater Bilder by Konschitzky, Walter
Reportagen und Berichte aus dem Dorfleben / Reports on Village Life
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Headings by Jody McKim
Vorbenerkung
Auf Der Heide
In Der Hecke
Ein Stuck Heimat Bewahrt
Ein Tag Fur Stefan Jager
Zwischen Ankunft und Abfahrt
Lebeb Mit Dem Fluss
Im Geburtsort Muller-Guttenbrunns
Gemeinsame Wege
Endstation Liebing
Wo Fisch Und Reis Zu Hause Sind
Tiroler Im Banat
Am Steierbach, Im Steirawald
Die Deutschböhem Im Bergland
Das Dorf In Der Stadt
Mut Nach Hundert Jahren
Photos by the author
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Heading translated by Diana Lambing
Introduction
On the heath
In the hedgerow
A piece of Heimat preserved
A day for Stefan Jäger
Between arrival and departure
Life with the river
In Muller-Guttenbrunn’s birthplace
Mutual ways
Terminus – Liebing
Where fish & rice are at home
Tirol people in the Banat
At Steierbach, in Steira forest
German Bohemians in the mountains
The village in the town
Courage after a hundred years
Photos by the author
Banater in Südostrumänien 1951-1956. Sterbefälle im Baragan
Author: Uwe Detemple
1951 decreed the Romanian Interior Ministry to relocate “dangerous elements” of a 25 km wide zone along the border with Yugoslavia. 12,791 families with 40,320 persons were deported to the Baragan level in southeastern Romania. After the abolition of forced stay 1955/56, many families returned to their villages in the border region. In Baragan remained not only their homes and fields, but also their deaths. The comprehensive documentation of all 1000 deaths of Banatern from 121 villages of Banat. Paperback: 92 pages; Publisher: Books on Demand; 1 edition (May 2, 2012); Language: German; ISBN-10: 3,848,208,431 / ISBN-13: 978-3848208432

To order, send email to Uwe Detemple at contact@uwedetemple.de
The cost is 12 € plus shipping costs to the US of 5.00 €. Uwe accepts payment via PayPal. If you wish to order and pay by PayPal, also include 1 € to cover the PayPal transaction fee. Book preview at the German Amazon.de web site:
www.amazon.de/gp/reader/3848208431/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben announcement (in German):
www.banater-schwaben.org/index.php?id=61&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1103&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=53&cHash=a6d86da6702c99dada2a54fda4ce20b5  
Banater Kalender (yearly publications)
The Banater Kalender books contains hundreds fact filled pages, covering everything from poems to history and high-quality photos, on heavy, glossy paper. It is a real high-quality piece of Banat history, than can be enjoyed  even without reading the German text. Language: German. The books contains hundreds fact filled pages, covering everything from poems to history. Nice quality and wonderful photos. It can be ordered from: Banat Verlag
Aneta Konschitzky
Zugspitzstraße 64
85435 Erding
Germany  or by e-mail to banatverlag@gmx.de *include the address to which the book should be shipped.
 
Barfüßiger Februar (Prose)
Author: Herta Müller
Rotbuch-Verl., Berlin 1987
ISBN: 3-88022-719-5 / ISBN-10:3-434-54540-9 / EAN:9783434545408
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2007 / Seiten:168
Barefoot in the Rubble
Author: Elizabeth B. Walter
Ethnic Cleansing Post WWII. A Story of Courage.  The author’s remembrances during life in her home village of Karlsdorf and later Rudolfsgnad, her family’s life under the Partisans, and later trying to rebuild their lives in a bombed out Germany.

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Casualty of War
A Childhood Remembered

Author: By Luisa Lang Owen
Foreword by Charles M. Barber

Danube Swabians were the targets of random revenge and ethnic cleansing.
Luisa Lang Owen talks about her memoir, Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered, published by Texas A. and M. University Press. She was interviewed by Mr. Owen about her experiences as described in her book, including her travel to the United States. At the end of World War II, Yugoslavia expelled ethnic Germans, who had lived in the Danube Valley for more than three hundred years. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/178310-1
Read: www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2002/owentoc.pdf
Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2003; Pages 299, Edition 1st. ISBN 1585442127 / ISBN-13 9781585442126 
LUISA LANG OWEN, born in Yugoslavia before the war, came to America in 1951. A practicing artist who lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, she is a professor emerita of art education at Wright State University.
 

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Das Banat
Author: Dr. Vladmr Margan
Der fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne
Author: Herta Müller
Göttingen : Wallstein-Verlag, 1999
Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2002
ISBN: 3-89244-359-9
Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger
Author: Herta Müller
Roman. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1992
ISBN 10: 3596181623 / ISBN 13: 9783596181629
Untertitel: Roman
Serie: Fischer Taschenbücher
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009 / Erschienen bei: Frankfurt Fischer (tb.)
Einband: Kartoniert/Broschiert
Zusatz: 2009. 288 S. 19 cm
Seitenzahl: 288 / Gewicht: 214 / Language: Deutsch
Der Große Schwabenzug
Author: Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn
Sechstes bis Adptes Taufend??? Verlag (publisher) L. Staackmann , Leipzig  1914
Der König verneigt sich und tötet
Author: Herta Müller
Hanser, München 2003
ISBN: 3-446-20353-2 / ISBN 10: 3596175348 / ISBN 13: 9783596175345
Serie: Fischer Taschenbücher Bd.17534
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008 / Erschienen bei: Frankfurt Fischer (tb.)
Einband: Kartoniert/Broschiert
Zusatz: 2008. 203 S. 19 cm / Seitenzahl: 203 / Gewicht: 160
Language: Deutsch
Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt
Author: Herta Müller
Roman. Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1986; Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1995
ISBN: 3-499-13385-7
Der Teufel Sitzt Im Spiegel: Wie Wahrnehmung Sich Erfindet
Author: 
Herta Müller
Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1991Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 3880227675 / ISBN 13: 9783880227675
Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm : vom Weggehen und Ausscheren
Author: 
Herta Müller
Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1993
Die Banater Schwaben
Author: Anton Valentin
kurzgefasste Geschichte einer südostdeutschen Volksgruppe ; mit einem volkskundlichen Anhang, München 1959. 118 pages. Publication of the Culture des Kulturreferates der Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben.

A condensed history of a southeast German group of peoples; with a volkskundlichen appendix Valentin, Anton Munich 1959. 118 S. Veröffentlichung/Publication of the Kulturreferates of the homeland association of the Banater Swabia; Arbeitsh.
Die Banater Schwaben 1966 Geschichte Banat Auswanderung
Author: Nikolaus Engelmann
Auf Vorposten des Abendlandes, Pannonia-Verlag Freilassing; 1966, 120 Seiten, Großformat: 28 x 20 cm. Aus dem Inhalt: Geschichte der Banater Schwaben in Wort und Bild.  Publisher: Pannonia Freilassing-Verlag; 1966, 120 pages, large format: 28 x 20 cm. From the contents: history of the Banat Swabia in word and image.
Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen
Author: 
Herta Müller
Hanser, München 2005
ISBN: 3-446-20677-9

Die Landwirtschaftliches Leistungen der Banater Schwaben
in Rumänien 1919-1944
(E: The agricultural achievements of the Banater Swabian in Rumania 1919-1944
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Author: Josef Komanschek, 1961, Government Agriculture Advice
Die Donau Schwaben
Author: Ingomar Senz
Book (Illustrated), 240 pages, Publisher Langen Müller, München, 
1994. ISBN: 3784425224
Die Donauschwaben
Author:
Die Glocken der Heimat
Author: Adam Müller GuttenbrunnVerlag (publisher) L Staackmann Leipzig 1911
Die Nacht ist aus Tinte gemacht
Authors: Böhm, Thomas, 
Herta Müller, Sander, Klaus
2 Audio-CDs
ISBN-10: 3932513886
ISBN-13: 9783932513886
Die Nicht Sterben Wollten
Author: Anton Scherer
Donauschwaben Literatur von Lenau bis zur Gegenwart Ein Buch vom Leben der Deutschen und ihrer Nachbarn in Südosteuropa. 1959, Pannonia-Verlag Freilassing (publisher). 
A book about the life of the Germans and their neighbors in south-eastern Europe.)
Donauschwabische Geschichte
Authors: Ingomar Senz, Rudolf Fath, Friedrich Fathas
Language: German, Publication Date: 1997. ISBN: 3800413477
Donauschwäbische Lebensformen an der Mittleren Donau
Author: Hans Gehl
Marburg, Elwert Verlag 2003 ISBN 3-7708-1228-X; 2003 – 330 pages, 19 Abb., 7 maps.
Donauschwäbisches Ortsnamenbuch
für die ehemals und teilweise noch deutsch besiedelten Orte in Ungarn, Jugoslawien (ohne Slowenien) sowie West-Rumänien (Banat und Sathmar).
Authors: Isabella Regenyi and Anton Scherer
Title Translation: Danube-Swabian Place Name Book for those formerly and partly still German places in Hungary, Yugoslavia (without Slovenia) and West Romania (Banat and Sathmar).  Language: German.  Publication Date: 1980.  188 S.+12 Karten. (15:21) Kstf. = SchrR zur donauschwäbischen Herkunftsforschung Euro 22,00
Drückender Tango
Author: 
Herta Müller
Erzählungen. – Bukarest: Kriterion-Verlag, 1984;
Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1996
ISBN: 3-499-22080-6

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Es War Einmal – The Yesteryears of the Danube Swabians
Author: Sister Mary Agnes Theiszmann Pitzer
A historical novel, in English. 269 pp. including 24 black/white photos by renowned Danube Swabian painter Stefan Jäger. I-SBN 0-9699880-0-1 National Library.  © Heimat Publishers, contact Frank Schmidt – note: as of 3/16/06 Frank has six copies of this book left and could likely get some more from Sister Mary Agnes.

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Finding Vital 1796-1945 Data Regarding German and Hungarian Ancestors of Banat(ska) Topola and Novo Selo, Plus an Exposé About the Local 1945-1946 Internment Camp for Germans of Yugoslavia
Author: 
Jacob Steigerwald

The publication should also be of particular interest to descendants of Danube Swabians who have been wondering about actual procedures that Tito’s partisans employed in wiping out the ethnic group. In a variety of ways, my account also has relevance regarding criminal actions against indigenous Germans elsewhere in the country, from 1944 until 1948. [16 Nov 2009]
Banat Topola Village information
From Franzfeld to Mansfield

A Journey Through Tito’s Death CampsAuthor: Edna Schuster Becker
Publisher: Outskirts Press (June 16, 2010); Language: English; Paperback: 200 pages; ISBN-10: 1432749129 / ISBN-13: 978-1432749125
This memoir conveys the journey of ethnic Germans living in an area that had changed to a non-German nationality after WWI in southeastern Europe. The towns existed because during the Austria-Hungary reign, people were asked to resettle there from northern areas of that empire. The author tells the story of her life that began in a town called Franzfeld, not too far from Belgrade. The town now is called Kacareva.

During and after WWII, the village was occupied by the German Army, then the Russian Army and ended up under Tito’s regime. The men were away in the war. This town, along with other German towns, was drastically changed after the Russians came through in 1944. The Russians took men and unmarried women with them to rebuild their war-torn country. These workers lived in camps with little food and had to perform hard labor.

When Tito came to power, the Germans were stripped of all their rights. In 1945 all Germans were forced into concentration camps, many of them known as death camps.

The author and most of her family survived, and because of her mother’s courage, escaped to Austria in 1947. After re-uniting with her father, it took the family five more years to find a permanent home in America.
Franzfeld Village Information

Photo of Erna Becker Schuster taken at the 2011 Mansfield Treffen (Jody McKim Pharr)

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Geschichte der deutsch-böhmischen Ansiedelungen im Banat
Author: Graßl, Peter
[E: History of the German-Bohemian settlements in the Banat]. 1904, Prague, publisher unknown. 128 Pages. (Beiträge zur deutsch-böhmischen Volkskunde V/2)
Geschichte des Banates im Altertum u. Mittelalter
Author: F. Wettel, Temesvar
Verlag der Deutsch – Banater Volksbucher
German-Hungarian Relations & and The Swabian Problem, From Karolyi to Gombos, 1919-1936
Author: Thomas Spira
© 1977 [East European monographs] ISBN: 0914710184
Der große Schwabenzug 1927
Author: Adam Müller Guttenbrunn
Der grosse Schwabenzug – Digitized (language: German)
Published by L. Staackmann, 1913
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Jul 10, 2007
377 pages
 
Roman – achtundzwanzigstes bis dreißigstes Tausend; Leipzig Verlag L.Staackmann 1927, 374 Seiten; Inhaltsverzeichnis: Die Botschaft des Konstablers; Die Brautwerber; In der Wiener Hofkanzlei; Das Brautschiff; Mereys Heimkehr; Der Audienztag des Gouverneurs; Bei den Kuruzzen; Die Völkerwanderung hebt an; Die Schwaben in Wien; Fronleichnam in Alt-Wien; Zwei besondere Fälle; Der Gast Aus dem Banat; Die Baronin Helene; In den Auen des Mohatsch; Neue Heimat; Bei den sieben Kurfürsten; Vater und Sohn an der Arbeit; Die Rundreise; Ein seltsames Hochtzeitsmahl; Bei den Verschollenen; Delibab; Allerlei Kämpfe; Ernster Ausklang.

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Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet
Author: 
Herta Müller

1997 Publisher: 
Rohwolt, 
ISBN 3 498 043897

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Irene’s Song
Author: Astrid Julian
Charleville, St Hubert, and Soltur, the three sister villages making up Banatsko Veliko Selo.
Still
, it frightened Nanji to think that of all the people in the surrounding villages, only Danitza had the courage to come and visit. She watched Danitza walk down the tree-lined street. The leaves of the young trees had been trimmed into small round balls. As a child Nanji liked to imagine giant poodles living under the village streets. When fall winds blew through Charlevil, St Hubert, and Soltur, the three sister-villages making up Banatsko Veliko Selo, it looked like the poodles were wagging their tails in anticipation of the good food the harvest would bring.
Snippet from: www.scribd.com/doc/31153479/Irene-s-Song
More about 
Banatsko Veliko Selo (
Charleville, Sankt Hubert and Soltur):
SEE: 
Banatsko Veliko Selo   http://www.dvhh.org/banat_villages/village-list.htm#B

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Janitscharen? Die Kindertragödie im Banat
Author: 
Karl Springenschmid
Published by 
Schutzverein Österr. Landsmannschaft (Wien), 
1978

Our Lost Children: Janissaries?
Translated (additional notes) by John Adam Kohler and Eve Eckert KoehlerMass kidnapping by Communists of 20,000 children of ethnic Germans from Banat.  P
ublished by Eckartschriften, Vienna, Austria, was translated from German by 
John Adam Koehler and Eve Eckert Koehler 
under the title ‘Our Lost Children: Janissaries?’ (87 p.). The English edition was published in 1980 by the Danube Swabian Association of the U.S.A., Inc.  
Copies may be available from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (where Ms. Koehler worked), through antiquarian sources, or via Inter Library Loan.

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Kochbuch der Donauschwaben
Author: Magda Waigand
Cookbook of the Danube Swabians
.  Self-published, 1970

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Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben in Oberösterreich
Author:
Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben in Oberösterreich (Hrsg.). 60 Jahre Donauschwaben in Oberösterreich 1944-2004. Erstellt von Oskar Feldtänzer und Georg Wildmann. 110 S.  Flucht , Ankunft, Seßhaftmachung und Integration der Donauschwaben in Oberösterreich.
Le Banat
Author: Gregoire Yakchitch
Publisher: La Revue Hebromadaire 1915

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Miss Bukarest
Author: Richard Wagner
Aufbau – Verlag 2001  ISBN 3-351-02926-8
My journey from the Banat to Canada
Author: Nick Tullius
Publisher: AuthorHouse (August 18, 2011); Language: English; ISBN-10: 1463418353; ISBN-13: 978-1463418359; Hardcover: 204 pages; available in paperback and kindle.
Ordering information: Available at 
www.amazon.com
Barnes & Noble (just by entering Nick Tullius or the title of the book).

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Nadirs
Author: 
Herta Müller

Translated & afterword by Sieglinde Lug.

Language: English

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Translation of Niederungen
NEMESIS AT POTSDAM
Author: Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The expulsion of the Germans from the East following World War II,  3rd Edition.
Niederungen
Author: 
Herta Müller

Bukarest: Kriterion-Verlag, 1982
Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1984

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Osterreich und die Banater Schwaben
Author: Hans Dama (editor)
“Austria and the Banat Swabians”
 Verlag Pollischanski, Wien 2005

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Pass-Protokolle des Deutsch-Banatischen Grenzregiments 1796-1806
Author: Josef Frank
Materials for the settlement of the southwest Banats.  Passport minutes of the German Deutsch-Banati border regiment.  The price plus postage by ship is $30.00 or $39.00 if you want the book by airmail. Sample of what one finds in the book.

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Seven Susannah’s, daughters of the Danube
Author: Eve Eckert Koehler
Published: 1976 by Danube Swabian Societies of the United States and Canada, Unknown Binding, 86 pgs
Städte und Dörfer (Towns and Villages)
Editor: Elke Hoffmann, Peter-Dietmar Leber and Walter Wolf
Contributions to the settlement history of the Germans in the Banat. Series: The Banat and the Banat Swabians, Volume 5, published by the Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-9229979-63-7, large format, 670 pages + 1 map, price € 45 – plus shipping costs.
Stefan Heinz-Kehrert
Author: Stefan Heinz-Kehrer
born 28 Feb 1913 in Kleinsanktpeter, Banat www.stefan-heinz.de IM ZANGENGRIFF DER ZEITEN – Ein langes Leben-in kurzen Geschichten “A long life in short stories”

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The Banat Germans
Author: Nikolaus Engelmann (Translated from German by John Michels)
Banat Danube Swabians customs and history. 136 pages.  Heimat Publishers, contact Frank Schmidt
The Danube Swabians: A People with Portable Roots
Author: Katherine Stenger-Frey
A history of the origins of the Danube Swabians and their immigration to Canada.
172 pages / soft cover (out of print)
ISBN: 0919303617 / 0-919303-61-7
ISBN: 9780919303614
Publisher: Mika Publishing Company, 
Belleville Ontario, 1982
Publication Date: 1982
The Danube Swabians: Biography of a People from Inception to Dispersal
Author: Michael Bresser

The Danube-Swabians in the Pannonian Basin, A new German Ethnic Group
Author: Anton Tafferner, Josef Schmidt, and Josef Volkmar Senz
Unknown Binding: 24 pages; Publisher: Danube Swabian Association (1982); Language: English; ASIN: B0006EQXLU
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000925803
Preview: http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/digital/jur/2002/hubbard.pdf
The Innocent Must Pay, Memoirs of a Danube German Girl in a Yugoslavian Death Camp 1944 – 1948
Author:  Maria Horwath Tenz
The memoirs of a teenage girl caught up in the cruelty and barbarism which raged throughout Europe during and after World War II and her experience in the Rudolfsgnad prison camp in Yugoslavia, 179 pgs.  Mrs. Tenz passed away February, 2007. 
It was originally published in 1987 under the title, VIER JAHRE MEINES LEBENS, ALS MÄDCHEN IM HUNGERLAGER RUDOLSFGNAD, Lizenzausgabe mit Genehmigung des Eugen-Verlas, München/Bayern.  In 1988-89 this book was revised and translated with the assistance of her son, Mr. Helmut Tenz, and the Danube Swabian Association, USA. The English version was published in 1991. [Recommended by Nancy Fredenberg]
The Great Swabian Trek (1913)
Author: Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn
The Land of Green Plums
Author: Herta Müller
Translated by the poet Michael Hoffman
Herta Muller’s first work to be translated into English, THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS tells the story of a young woman and her friends in Ceausescu’s Rumania, who travel from the provinces in search of better prospects in the city. But things are no better there. The narrator watches while totalitarianism infiltrates the lives of her friends, and her own life, causing suicide, betrayal, and corruption in rulers and citizenry alike. (Translated from her book: Herztier)
Publisher: NY Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Language: English / Format: 
Hardcover ISBN-10: 0805042954 / ISBN-13: 9780805042955
 
The Pied Poets Contemporary verse of the Transylvanian and Danube Germans of Romania
Author: Robert Elsie
Website: www.elsie.de/home.html
TRÄNEN STATT BROT 1944 – 1948
Author: Filip, Wilma
(E: Tears instead of bread, 1944-1948)
1944 – 1948 im serbischen Banat 235 S. m. v. Abbildungen, Paperback ISBN: 3 – 87336 – 164 – 7

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Valley of the Shadow: After the Turmoil, My Heart Cries No More
Author: Erich Anton Helfert and Donald S. Ellis
Ethnic Cleansing Post WWII – A Story of Courage, centers on the Sudetenland, where the native German-speaking population.
Von Der Abschiedsgasse Bis Zum “Zwolfhaus”
Author: Anton Peter Petri
Die Gassennamen in Den Ehemaligen Deutschen Siedlungen Der Batschka, Bosniens, der Jugoslawischen Baranya, Kroatiens, Slawoniens Und Syrmiens. Versuch Einer Sammlung Und Sichtung. 
München 1980, 168 pages.  Publisher: Verlag des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks. 
EAN: 9783883560069, ISBN: 3883560065

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The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II
Author: Wolfgang W. E. Samuel



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