geboren am 11. Februar 1927
in Beuthen, Oberschlesien.
Arrived as a refugee with her mother in Dresden on her eighteenth birthday:
in Beuthen, Oberschlesien.
Arrived as a refugee with her mother in Dresden on her eighteenth birthday:
Sontag, 11. Februar 1945
Sunday, February 11th. 1945
Dimanche, février 11, 1945
Domingo, 11 de Fevereiro de 1945
"There was a tacit agreement, equally binding on everyone,
that the true state of material and moral ruin
in which the country found itself
was not to be described.
The darkest aspects of the final act of destruction,
as experienced by the great majority of the German population,
remained under a kind of taboo like a shameful family secret,
a secret that perhaps could not even be privately acknowledged."
that the true state of material and moral ruin
in which the country found itself
was not to be described.
The darkest aspects of the final act of destruction,
as experienced by the great majority of the German population,
remained under a kind of taboo like a shameful family secret,
a secret that perhaps could not even be privately acknowledged."
W.G. Sebald
in
On the Natural History of Destruction.
"Il faut surtout pardonner à ces âmes malheureuses qui ont élu
de faire le pèlerinage à pied, qui côtoient le rivage et regardent sans comprendre
l'horreur de la lutte, la joie de vaincre ni le profond désespoir des vaincus".
Joseph Conrad, letter to Marguerite Poradowska, 23rd-25th March, 1890
.
