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100	1		_aBilger, Burkhard, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFatherland : _ba memoir of war, conscience, and family secrets / _cBurkhard Bilger.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2304
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023
300			_ax, 314 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-312).
505	0		_aSuspect -- Subject -- Father -- Ancestor -- Son -- Soldier -- Casualty -- Ghost -- Teacher -- Believer -- Invader -- Occupier -- Party chief -- Traitor -- Prisoner -- Accused -- Defendant -- Grandfather.
520			_a"What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans. A fervent Nazi when the war began, he grew close to the villagers over the next four years, till he came to think of himself as their protector, shielding them from his own party's brutality. Yet he was arrested in 1946 and accused of war crimes. Was he guilty or innocent? A vicious collaborator or just an ordinary man, struggling to atone for his country's crimes? Bilger goes to Germany to find out"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aGönner, Karl, _d1899-1979.
650		0	_aEx-Nazis _zGermany _vBiography.
650		0	_aTeachers _zGermany _vBiography.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zFrance _zBartenheim.
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yGerman occupation, 1940-1945. _926228
600	1	0	_aBilger, Burkhard _xFamily.
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