At Home in Exile : A Memoir.

By: Griffin, Helga MMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781760464271Subject(s): Griffin, Helga-Maria, 1935- | Refugees--Australia--Biography | Prisoners of war--Australia--BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: At Home in ExileDDC classification: 944.04092 LOC classification: DU116.2.G75Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Author's Note to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- 1. A Fountain in the Square -- 2. The Lost Homeland -- 3. Steinkirche -- 4. A Jewel in the Austrian Crown -- 5. Meeting the Relatives -- 6. For the Love of Iran -- 7. To the Bottom of the World -- 8. Das Lager -- 9. His Majesty's Guests -- 10. The Imaginary Homeland -- 11. Shadows and Flames -- 12. After the War -- 13. Stranded in Exile -- 14. Swimming for the Eucharist -- 15. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- 16. Mirror Without Identity -- 17. The Wreck of the Deutschland -- 18. Intelligence Testing -- 19. A Banquet of Life -- 20. Marriage in Rome -- 21. Integration.
Summary: This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family's search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background.
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Intro -- Author's Note to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword to the 2021 Edition -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- 1. A Fountain in the Square -- 2. The Lost Homeland -- 3. Steinkirche -- 4. A Jewel in the Austrian Crown -- 5. Meeting the Relatives -- 6. For the Love of Iran -- 7. To the Bottom of the World -- 8. Das Lager -- 9. His Majesty's Guests -- 10. The Imaginary Homeland -- 11. Shadows and Flames -- 12. After the War -- 13. Stranded in Exile -- 14. Swimming for the Eucharist -- 15. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- 16. Mirror Without Identity -- 17. The Wreck of the Deutschland -- 18. Intelligence Testing -- 19. A Banquet of Life -- 20. Marriage in Rome -- 21. Integration.

This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family's search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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