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Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Now you don't have to read this book for yourself. It is another autobiographical text, one that probes the non- relationship between absent concentration camp guard and convicted and unrepentant war criminal mother, and angry, resentful and self-absorbed daughter. Again, I understand that the concept of an autobiography is essentially a narcissistic one, when the two central figures in the piece are so loathsome — for very different reasons — it can be hard going making it all the way through.
I am sure that reconciling your own life with the knowledge that your mother was not only unrepentant — but proud — about her past including stints in the most notorious extermination camps must be difficult, and it is clear that the author had a difficult and isolated childhood marked by rejection. Give it a miss. There's something off about this whole story. It's either partially fabricated or completely fabricated. Not saying her mother wasn't in the SS but the meeting and conversation with her mother had to have been either recorded or this woman has a remarkable memory of every little gesture, sigh and tear her mother made that day.
There's just something off about it. Would I recommend it? Nothing is uncovered that we didn't already know about what happened in the camps and unless you are interes There's something off about this whole story. Nothing is uncovered that we didn't already know about what happened in the camps and unless you are interested in incoherent ramblings of a former SS guard, this just was not interesting.
You are left with more unanswered questions than answers. I did not enjoy the writing style of this memoir. It was written by a daughter trying to come to terms with being abandoned by her SS Mother. Let Me Go seemed like a ploy for permission from the reader the world to hate her mother and acceptance for never seeing her again after their morning visit.
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I was repulsed by the mother and her war atrocities, for which she clearly never felt remorse. I didn't even finish Plg rated it did not like it Feb 18, Ann rated it did not like it May 22, Linda rated it did not like it Dec 22, Stephanie OBrien rated it did not like it Apr 03, Cmariewt rated it did not like it Dec 26, Erin rated it did not like it Sep 02, Annika rated it did not like it Mar 11, Leanne Fisk rated it did not like it Jul 12, Alanna Ka'uilani rated it did not like it Jun 22, Kathy Burkholder rated it did not like it Apr 08, Mrs Tania Preekel rated it did not like it Jul 15, Natopigro rated it did not like it Jan 07, Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
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