Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood
    Unavailable
    Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood
    Unavailable
    Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood
    Ebook394 pages7 hours

    Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood

    By Joachim Fest

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    From the author of Inside Hitler's Bunker, the critically acclaimed book that inspired the equally acclaimed 2005 film Downfall.

    Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The
    Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer and his descriptions of the last days in the Fuhrer's bunker have all reached a worldwide audience of millions. But how did the young Fest, born in 1926, personally experience National Socialism, the Second World War and a catastrophically defeated Germany?

    In Not Me, the memoir of his childhood and youth, Joachim Fest chronicles his own extraordinary early life, providing an intimate portrait of those dark years of conflict. Whether describing his Catholic home in a Berlin suburb, his father's resistance of the regime and subsequent teaching ban, his own expulsion from school, or Aunt Dolly's introductions to the operatic world, these are the long-awaited personal reflections of a born observer the exactitude of whose prose is as sharp as the memories he describes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9780857899606
    Unavailable
    Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood

    Related to Not Me

    Related ebooks

    History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Nazi Invasion Of Poland

      Aug 8, 2019

      The Nazi Invasion Of Poland
      1 min read

    • Article

      I guarded Albert Speer

      Jun 30, 2021

      In Berlin in 1961, aged 18, serving with the Royal Sussex Regiment, I was detailed for my first two-day duty as guard commander at the nearby gloomy Spandau Prison. It housed the last three Nazi war criminals: Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess; the Hitler

      3 min read

    • Article

      When The Liberators Came

      Jan 23, 2020

      When The Liberators Came
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Translation No. 6

      Sep 15, 2019

      The Art of Translation No. 6
      30 min read

    • Article

      Living History: The Millions Interviews Jason Sommer

      Feb 1, 2022

      My father often seemed angry and didn’t sleep well. There was a recurrent, if intermittent, sense of unease around the family, a kind of haunting. Eventually the ghosts, and the demons, were named. The post Living History: The Millions Interviews Jas

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Art of TheaterNo. 18

      Dec 1, 2020

      The Art of TheaterNo. 18
      39 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Editing No. 4

      Jun 15, 2019

      The Art of Editing No. 4
      25 min read

    • Article

      The Visionary Memoirs of Péter Nádas

      Jan 10, 2024

      'Shimmering Details' is a delicate fusion, supplementing the high-modernist realism of Proust and Musil with an expressionist’s commitment to the distortions generated by strong feeling. The post The Visionary Memoirs of Péter Nádas appeared first on

      5 min read

    • Article

      An Apprenticeship

      Dec 1, 2021

      An Apprenticeship
      39 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Mark Slouka

      Dec 16, 2021

      When times get hard—and the news, I think it’s fair to say, has sucked of late—my reading, like everyone else’s, gets reactive. The post A Year in Reading: Mark Slouka appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

      Jan 27, 2021

      The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz
      4 min read

    • Article

      Winter Reads!

      Dec 11, 2020

      Winter Reads!
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jan 25, 2024

      Letters
      13 min read

    • Article

      ‘Call yourself English?’

      Aug 21, 2019

      ‘Call yourself English?’
      19 min read

    • Article

      Tristram And The Tyrants

      Sep 30, 2021

      Tristram And The Tyrants
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Full Portion Of Chips

      Aug 25, 2021

      Both my grandfathers had nicknames. My father’s father, Henry Channon, was called Chips. It is a mystery why he was given this nickname. Did he once live with a Mr Fish at Oxford? Or was he the first person to introduce potato chips or crisps to Lond

      5 min read

    Reviews for Not Me

    4/5

    43 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Finished "Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood" by Joachim Fest (after a couple of breaks), the WWII German historian, b. 1926; fought for a short bit at the end of the war and POW in France. The book is a lot about his father, but I did come away with quite the feeling for JF. It's really quite the memoir, quite the time, quite the people and friends and family, quite the story.