An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Führer--Adolf Hitler.
Postcards to Hitler is a deeply researched history drawn from personal interviews and archival documents including Benno\'s and Anna\'s final letters--written amid a slow-moving parade of horror until the frail boundaries between themselves and the Holocaust ultimately vanish..
A bloody pogrom is chased by a second world war, followed by evictions, resettlements and far worse, sounding an inescapable knell despite desperate and defiant acts of resistance.
What might have been a site of socialist experimentation instead becomes the epicenter of German fascism, and as Benno and Anna and their extended families cling with vain hope to a peaceful resolution, their beloved haven degenerates into a state of racialized madness.
Far from a fleeting chill, what follows is the Time of prolonged bloodshed known as World War I, followed by a period of German humiliation, resurgent revolution, and a brief left-led democratic interlude in Munich.
When, on a warm July day in 1914, an assassination strikes an obscure Balkan corner of the continent, the news passes through Munich\'s beer-gardens like a cold wind.
Of all the Jews in Europe, Germans like the Neuburgers feel most secure.
The year is 1907, a relatively prosperous, optimistic Time for German Jews, and there is little hint that this good fortune might soon unravel.
In a story passionately told by one of their descendants, the narrative begins as Benno Neuburger, a modest German land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer, meet at a seder in Laupheim and soon marry.
An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Führer--Adolf Hitler
