Wintergreen by Anna Elisabeth Rosmus
After the Second World War, local officials in and around the German city of Passau were forced to mark the graves of some victims of Nazi terror in commemoration of the crimes committed by a nation. They chose the cheapest ground cover available - wintergreen. With bitter irony the title Wintergreen refers simultaneously to the easy cover-up of these crimes in the collective memory of a people who were observers, bystanders, facilitators, and even participants. With the same commitment to exposing Nazi crimes that has made her books Against the Stream and Out of Passau so widely read, Anna Elisabeth Rosmus uncovers the wartime fate of foreign workers, their children, prisoners of war, and Jewish citizens in Winterg reen: Suppressed Murders. The renowned human rights activist, whose search for the truth about the Nazi state inspired the Academy Award-nominated film The Nasty Girl, recounts a horrific story of slave labor, forced abortions, and mass murder that took place in and around her Bavarian hometown. Until Rosmus began her work, the citizens of the region had successfully avoided acknowledging these atrocities for decades. In Wintergreen, Rosmus documents the treatment of wo
Anna Elisabeth Rosmus, an author and human rights activist, is the recipient of many awards for her struggle against bigotry and anti-Semitism. Her honors include the Conscience in Media Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Heinz-Galinski Prize given by the German Jewish Community, the Sarnat Prize from the Anti-Defamation League, and the Holocaust Memorial Award from the Holocaust Survivors and Friends in Pursuit of Justice. Her writings about Nazism and neo-Nazism have educated generations of Germans and non-Germans about the Holocaust. Rosmus lives near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Imogen Von Tannenberg previously served as director of translations at the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation established by Steven Spielberg and is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California. She lives in Venice, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781570035098 |
| ISBN 10 | 1570035091 |
| Title | Wintergreen |
| Author | Anna Elisabeth Rosmus |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | University of South Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2004-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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