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The Pendulum

By Julie Lindahl

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The Pendulum

By Julie Lindahl

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Called "poetic and heartfelt" and "powerful" by a Publisher's Weekly starred review, read about Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover the truth about her grandfather's history as a member of Hitler's SS elite. This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story-the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations-emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth. In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay, and Brazil, Julie uncovers, among many other discoveries, that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture and was complicit in the murder of the local population on the large estates he oversaw in occupied Poland. He eventually fled to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. The pendulum used by Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family-and herself.
Product details
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2018-10-15
Publication Date:
2018-10-15
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1538111934
ISBN13:
9781538111932
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
519 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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