10/11/2023 0 Comments Download dead space downfallYet they are true and they bring home in direct, human form something we in free countries find so difficult to understand. The parallels are so close they feel too bad to be true. I shall not reproduce here the gripping family story the book tells, but I want to draw attention to its “fearful symmetry”. They ended up in Hendon, married but before that, they had quite separate, quite unspeakable experiences caused by war, totalitarianism and race/class hatred. Dad (Ludwik Finkelstein) was born in Lwow (now Lviv), then in Poland, now in Ukraine. Both were Jewish, born in between the two World Wars. “Mum and Dad” were Daniel Finkelstein’s parents. It is a good book to read at any time, but also a book for right now. Nevertheless, I could barely put it down. You could not call it an August “beach read”. Although Finkelstein writes with humour and clarity, his tale is about as grim as could be. Its chirpy title makes it sound like Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by the late Spike Milligan. I have just caught up with Daniel Finkelstein’s newish book Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad.
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