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"Class of ’31" is a beautifully written memoir from Walter Jessel, a German Jew determined to answer the question that haunted him since emigrating to the United States in 1938: “Would the people of other nations, if they were placed in the same position as the German during the Hitler regime, behave in the same manner?” Born in 1913 in Frankfurt, Jessel led an extraordinary twentieth-century life on three continents. In 1945, Jessel returned to Germany as an American soldier and sought out his former classmates, hoping to understand how they survived, or thrived, in Nazi Germany. Incredibly personal and honest, "Class of ‘31" is a valuable primary source for anyone interested in the history of German Jews.
Price: $109.00
Pages: 208
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date:
31 October 2017
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781618116529
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Memoirs
Brian E. Crim is the John M. Turner Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Associate Professor History at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is author of "Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938" (2014) and "Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State" (2018).
Foreword - Michael J. Neufeld Introduction – Brian E. Crim Class of '31 – Walter Jessel Walter Jessel – A Chronology