A time out of joint : a journey from Nazi Germany to post-war Britain
Roland Hill was born in Hamburg in 1920 to prosperity and culture - his father was a sugar trader and his mother an opera singer. Both were of Jewish descent but had converted to Christianity. This is an autobiography of Roland Hill. It enables readers to re-live European history during the darkest period of Nazi Germany and World War II.
Print Book, English, 2007
Radcliffe Press ; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2007
Autobiography
xvii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781845114954, 1845114957
148904973
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The End of the Beginning
Looking for my childhood
How to play the games
My father courts Adele
My mother's 'spark'
The coming of Hitler
My grandmama's big journey
2. Viennese Emancipation
The killing of Chancellor Dollfuss
Tu, felix Austria
Meeting a great contemporary
God writes straight with crooked lines
Farewell free Austria
3. Paradise of Exiles
A mature friendship
Leaving for England with L5
4. Asylum Seeker
A land of such dear souls
Minding my manners
What to do with early morning tea?
Sack race at Balliol
Cleaning the loos with the Kaiser's grandson
5. Labor Omnia Vincit
Different countries
different four-letter words
Mixing concrete and theology
Benefits of the kitchen sink
Invading Normandy
Raised to three stripes and crown
Controlling the German press
6. Being a Liberator
Tea with the 'Lion of Munster'
Permission to fraternize
St Hildegard, women's lib or omnia vincit amor
How my parents survived the war
7. An Elderly Student
The relevance of St Benedict
A lesson from Sir Michael Howard
8. Writing 'Pro Ecclesia Dei', 'Regina et Patria'
Journalist apprentice
The remarkable DW
The diplomatic silence of Pius XII
Edith Stein appeals to the pope
Is the Church institutionally anti-Semitic?
9. Lord Jones
Alive or Dead?
Insularity breeds contempt
Great scenes in the Commons
The FO blocks Maggie's view
Churchill's mouse
Anglo-German misunderstandings
Dr Waldheim ingratiates himself
A born European Habsburg
The good Herr Karl
John Bull's other island
'Gay' London attracts the cultural world
Meeting T.S. Eliot
A visit to Henry Moore
Sir Karl Popper: happiest of philosophers
Dylan and Caitlin Thomas as parents
Meeting England's 'Queen of Romance '
An Englishwoman among the Arabs
An unusual muncio
Honouring W.H. Auden
Busybodies in the media
10. Tracing the Footsteps of a 'Flawed Archangel'
Rounding the archives
A positive reception
Dollinger's last word
11. Commemorating Amelia
Three inseparable sisters
Pets galore
Discovering allergies
Index
Includes index