![]() ![]() Zusammenfassung This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness ! Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir - an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. Ironic, moving, and deeply human, Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence. He now lived in fear that, at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door - or Allied bombs falling on his home. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. ![]() So he was crushed to learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. Like other German boys, Hans went to school like other German boys, he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to Liberia. Klappentext This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir - an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. ![]() ![]() The father of two sons, Hans lives with his wife, Katherine, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was an active participant in the civil rights movement. Army and then became a journalist for Johnson Publishing, where he was managing editor of Ebony magazine. Massaquoi emigrated to the United States in the early 1950s. ![]()
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