The Day the Nazis Came

My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp

The Day the Nazis Came
Stephen R Matthews
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
11 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789462074
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By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked with Jews straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen. He had nearly drowned, menaced by Alsatian guard dogs, been beaten by a member of the SS, stranded in a minefield and had his hand broken by a German guard for attempting to feed Russian prisoners.The family kept going through over three of imprisonment, held together by their will to survival and their love for each other. But the island home they eventually returned to had been scarred and stricken by Nazi occupation.The Day the Nazis Came Here is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of Nazi prison camps through the eyes of a child - a world in which the real dangers often seemed trivial and every day was a new adventure. Above all, it pays tribute to the preciousness of hope, and shows that human kindness may flower in the unlikeliest of places.
Stephen was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands in 1938 and following the barbaric German invasion of the Channel Islands, in 1940, he was illegally deported to Germany by late 1942, with his father and mother. They were eventually liberated by Free French forces in 1945.He later joined the elite British Colonial Police Force in Northern Rhodesia and received many awards and commendations for his work, dedication and commitment, before starting afresh in the world of business, finance and management consultancy. Today, he lives and writes in France and China.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789462074
Published: 11 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Blake Publishing
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 336

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