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RESTLESS DAYS-Lilo Linke-Knopf...
...Lilo Linke was a little German girl of seven when her Fatherland became World Enemy No. i. Her childhood and youth were spent in the nightmare atmosphere of defeat, starvation, revolution. Not because she thinks her personal War history extraordinary but because millions of her generation went through the same painful process, she has written this straightforward report on her dark lexicon of youth. Even Teutophobes will find her account human and moving...
Wartime was normal life to Lilo Linke and her contemporaries. Substitute food, standing in line, semi-starvation were more exciting than dreadful. Every day brought some change, some new restriction to be got around somehow. What she principally minded were her ragged clothes. Adolescence and the Armistice made her more aware of events. By the time street-fighting started outside her own Berlin tenement she knew she was living in an abnormal day. Her parents, bourgeois of the old regime, saw their world collapsing around their ears, but to her the ruins were a new world, however sinister. Freed...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...