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Alfred Landecker

By Annette Prosinger

Alfred Landecker

By Annette Prosinger

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Alfred Landecker's life illustrates the fate of the vast majority of Jewish people in 20th century Germany at the time.From rural eastern Prussia to an industrial city in Germany's southeast: shortly before the start of the First World War, Alfred Landecker decided to make a considerable leap. Raised in a large Jewish family in the town of Nordenburg, as a young man Alfred left the area for Mannheim. After years on the Western Front, he worked as a business representative in a machine factory, became acquainted with his future Catholic wife Maria Geßner, and started a family. In 1928, Maria died. Subsequent Nazi persecution from 1933 would place Alfred and his three children - designated 'half Jews' through the Nuremberg Laws - in a hopeless situation. In 1942, Landecker was deported 'to the east' and murdered. 'Times change, and with the times, people change as well' he had written four years earlier in a letter to his daughter. This biography describes how 'changed times' intruded into ­Alfred Landecker's life and destroyed it.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
2025-11-19
Publication Date:
2025-11-19
Publisher:
Wallstein Verlag GmbH
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3835359959
ISBN13:
9783835359956
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
350 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
217 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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