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Das Haus: In East Berlin

By: J. Arthur Heise, Melanie Kuhr
Narrated by: Cathy Fielding, Jason P. Hilton
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Summary

Das Haus in East Berlin is the true story of two German families - one Jewish, the other not - whose paths first crossed in Nazi Germany and 70 years later again in the United States in the quest to have a house, which was located in the former East Germany, returned to its rightful owner.

You will find out how the two heirs, who started out as antagonists in the 10-year struggle over the ownership of the house, ended up co-authors of this audiobook. In fact, the turbulent history of 20th-century Germany, from World War I through the Nazi era, the Soviet occupation of East Germany, the rise and fall of East Germany, all the way to the post-Cold War struggles to determine the rightful heirs to a property sold by a Jewish family to a member of the Nazi Party a half century earlier, are all part of the story of Das Haus.

  • What was it like for a six-year-old boy to live in the house through the battle for Berlin as the Third Reich collapsed under the murderous onslaught of the Soviet Army to end World War II in Europe?
  • How did the daughter of the Jewish owner of the house who had sold it to a German Nazi escape to England at the last minute and also find a way to bring her young daughter to Britain?
  • What was the role of "junkyard dog" lawyer?
  • What was it like as the two families struggled - unbeknown to each other - to make their way to America and tried to rebuild their lives in the United States?
  • Once the Berlin Wall came down and German unification took place, what was the struggle like as the heirs of the two families separately tried to have Das Haus returned to them?
  • How did the German heir's diligent search for the Jewish heiress fare as he tried to work out a common approach to getting the house back?
  • What came as the biggest shock of the odyssey to the German heir as he found out what happened within two years after his parents had purchased Das Haus?

©2013 J Arthur Heise & Melanie Kuhr (P)2014 J Arthur Heise & Melanie Kuhr
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Great book, would definitely recommend to anyone with an interest in WWII / German historical events.

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