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"碍伪蟿伪蟽蟿蚁慰蠁萎", 蟺慰蠀 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蟿慰谓 螡慰苇渭尾蟻喂慰 蟿慰蠀 1943 魏伪喂 蔚魏未蠈胃畏魏蔚 纬喂伪 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 蠁慰蟻维 蟿慰 1948, 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位蔚委 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 魏伪蟿伪纬蔚纬蟻伪渭渭苇谓畏 渭伪蟻蟿蠀蟻委伪 纬喂伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 尾慰渭尾伪蟻未喂蟽渭慰蠉蟼 蟿慰蠀 螒渭尾慰蠉蟻纬慰蠀 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰蠀蟼 危蠀渭渭维蠂慰蠀蟼 蟿慰 魏伪位慰魏伪委蟻喂 蟿慰蠀 鈥�43, 蟺慰蠀 萎蟿伪谓 纬谓蠅蟽蟿慰委 渭蔚 蟿慰 魏蠅未喂魏蠈 蠈谓慰渭伪 芦螘蟺喂蠂蔚委蟻畏蟽畏 螕蠈渭慰蟻蟻伪禄.

螇未畏 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 未蔚魏伪蔚蟿委伪 蟿慰蠀 鈥�50 慰 螙伪谓-螤蠅位 危伪蟻蟿蟻 蔚委蠂蔚 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委蟽蔚喂 蟿慰谓 围伪谓蟼 螆蟻喂蠂 螡蠈蟽蟽伪魏 蠅蟼 蟿慰谓 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪喂蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 螕蔚蟻渭伪谓蠈 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 蟿畏蟼 渭蔚蟿伪蟺慰位蔚渭喂魏萎蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂蠈未慰蠀. 螤伪蟻鈥� 蠈位鈥� 伪蠀蟿维 蠂蟻蔚喂维蟽蟿畏魏蔚 谓伪 蟺蔚蟻维蟽慰蠀谓 29 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 苇魏未慰蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 "螝伪蟿伪蟽蟿蚁慰蠁萎蟼", 纬喂伪 谓伪 尾伪未委蟽蔚喂 蟽蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻维未慰蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 螡蠈蟽蟽伪魏 蟿慰 喂蔚蟻蠈 蟿苇蟻伪蟼 蟿畏蟼 纬蔚蟻渭伪谓喂魏萎蟼 蠂蟻慰谓喂魏慰纬蟻伪蠁委伪蟼, 慰 螒位蔚尉维谓蟿蔚蟻 螝位慰蠉纬魏蔚, 魏伪喂 谓伪 尾纬蔚喂 蟽蟿慰 蠁蠅蟼 蟿畏蟼 未畏渭慰蟽喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 蟿慰 未喂魏蠈 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰 纬喂伪 蟿慰谓 尾慰渭尾伪蟻未喂蟽渭蠈 渭喂伪蟼 维位位畏蟼 纬蔚蟻渭伪谓喂魏萎蟼 蟺蠈位畏蟼, 蟿慰蠀 围维位渭蟺蔚蟻蟽蟿伪谓蟿, 蟿慰 1945.

惟蟽蟿蠈蟽慰, 伪魏蠈渭畏 魏伪喂 渭苇蠂蟻喂 蟿慰 1997, 慰喂 伪谓蔚位苇畏蟿慰喂 尾慰渭尾伪蟻未喂蟽渭慰委 纬蔚蟻渭伪谓喂魏蠋谓 蟺蠈位蔚蠅谓 伪蟺蠈 蟿喂蟼 蟽蠀渭渭伪蠂喂魏苇蟼 未蠀谓维渭蔚喂蟼 蟺伪蟻苇渭蔚谓伪谓 纬喂伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 螕蔚蟻渭伪谓慰蠉蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚委蟼 蠅蟼 蔚蟺委 蟿慰 蟺位蔚委蟽蟿慰谓 苇谓伪 胃苇渭伪 蟿伪渭蟺慰蠉, 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟼 蟺慰蠀 蠋胃畏蟽蔚 蟿慰谓 螔. 螕魏. 螙苇渭蟺伪位谓蟿 谓伪 未蠋蟽蔚喂 苇谓伪谓 魏蠉魏位慰 未喂伪位苇尉蔚蠅谓 蟽蟿畏 螙蠀蟻委蠂畏 纬喂鈥� 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏谓 伪蟺慰蟽喂蠋蟺畏蟽畏. 危蔚 渭委伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿喂蟼 未喂伪位苇尉蔚喂蟼 蟿慰蠀 慰 螙苇渭蟺伪位谓蟿 蔚尉萎蟻蔚 蟿慰谓 螡蠈蟽蟽伪魏 蠅蟼 蟿慰谓 渭慰谓伪未喂魏蠈 螕蔚蟻渭伪谓蠈 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 蟿畏蟼 蔚蟺慰蠂萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 未喂苇胃蔚蟿蔚 蟿畏 尾慰蠉位畏蟽畏 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蠄蠀蠂喂魏蠈 蟽胃苇谓慰蟼 谓伪 魏伪蟿伪纬蟻维蠄蔚喂 蟿喂蟼 蔚蟺喂蟺蟿蠋蟽蔚喂蟼 蔚魏蔚委谓畏蟼 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿蟻慰蠁喂魏萎蟼 蔚魏蟽蟿蟻伪蟿蔚委伪蟼.

125 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

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Hans Erich Nossack

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Hans Erich Nossack war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, der zun盲chst als Lyriker und Dramatiker, sp盲ter jedoch vor allem als Prosaautor in Erscheinung trat.

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韦慰 渭喂魏蟻蠈 伪蠀蟿蠈 蠂蟻慰谓喂魏蠈 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蟿慰谓 螡慰苇渭尾蟻喂慰 蟿慰蠀 1943, 未畏位伪未萎 渭蠈位喂蟼 位委纬慰蠀蟼 渭萎谓蔚蟼 渭蔚蟿维 蟿畏谓 螘蟺喂蠂蔚委蟻畏蟽畏 螕蠈渭慰蟻蟻伪, 魏伪蟿维 蟿畏谓 慰蟺慰委伪 尾慰渭尾伪蟻未委蟽蟿畏魏蔚 伪谓畏位蔚蠋蟼 畏 蟺蠈位畏 蟿慰蠀 螒渭尾慰蠉蟻纬慰蠀 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰蠀蟼 危蠀渭渭维蠂慰蠀蟼, 渭蔚 伪蟺慰蟿苇位蔚蟽渭伪 蟿蠅谓 胃维谓伪蟿慰 未蔚魏维未蠅谓 蠂喂位喂维未蠅谓 伪渭维蠂蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿蟻慰蠁萎 未蔚魏维未蠅谓 蠂喂位喂维未蠅谓 魏伪蟿慰喂魏喂蠋谓, 未畏渭慰蟽委蠅谓 魏蟿喂蟻委蠅谓 魏伪喂 蔚蟻纬慰蟽蟿伪蟽委蠅谓. 螣 螡蠈蟽伪魏 魏伪蟿伪蠁苇蟻谓蔚喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蔚 位委纬慰 蟽蠂蔚蟿喂魏维 蠂蠋蟻慰 谓伪 渭蔚蟿伪蠁苇蟻蔚喂 渭蔚 纬位伪蠁蠀蟻蠈 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿蔚蟼 蟿慰谓 蟺蠈谓慰, 蟿慰谓 蟿蟻蠈渭慰, 蟿慰谓 蠁蠈尾慰 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 伪尾蔚尾伪喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蔚蟺苇蠁蔚蟻蔚 蟿慰 伪谓萎胃喂魏慰 魏伪喂 蠁蠀蟽喂魏维 伪蟺维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰 伪蠀蟿蠈 蠂蟿蠉蟺畏渭伪 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪蟿慰委魏慰蠀蟼 蟿畏蟼 蟺蠈位畏蟼. 危蟿慰 "螚 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿蟻慰蠁萎" 胃伪 未喂伪尾维蟽蔚喂 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 尾喂谓喂苇蟿蔚蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 味蠅萎 渭蔚蟿维 蟿慰 蠂蟿蠉蟺畏渭伪, 魏伪胃蠋蟼 蔚蟺委蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 魏维蟺慰喂慰蠀蟼 蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏慰蠉 蠉蠁慰蠀蟼 蟽蠂慰位喂伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 蟽蠂蔚蟿喂魏维 渭蔚 蟿慰谓 尾慰渭尾伪蟻未喂蟽渭蠈 蟿畏蟼 蟺蠈位畏蟼 蟿慰蠀, 蟿慰谓 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰 魏伪喂 蟿喂蟼 蔚蟺喂蟺蟿蠋蟽蔚喂蟼 蠈位蠅谓 伪蠀蟿蠋谓 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼 纬蠉蟻蠅 蟿慰蠀. 螚 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蔚委谓伪喂 未蠀谓伪蟿萎, 未喂蔚喂蟽未蠀蟿喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蟽蔚 蟽畏渭蔚委伪 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟺慰位蠉 蠁慰蟻蟿喂蟽渭苇谓畏, 蟽委纬慰蠀蟻伪 渭蔚 蟿喂蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁苇蟼 魏伪喂 蟿喂蟼 蟽魏苇蠄蔚喂蟼 蟿慰蠀 慰 螡蠈蟽伪魏 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蔚委 苇谓伪谓 魏蠈渭蟺慰 蟽蟿慰 蟽蟿慰渭维蠂喂. 螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 渭喂魏蟻蠈 蟽蟿慰 渭维蟿喂, 伪位位维 苇谓蟿慰谓慰 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏位慰谓喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈.
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December 1, 2014
My heart is broken after reading this slim memoir about the firebombing of Hamburg in 1943. What makes me saddest is the realization that humanity has not learned anything from the atrocities of WWII. I pray that my children will never have to endure something like this. I wish I could pray that no child would have to experience this but I know that would be a fruitless prayer.

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October 6, 2019
Nossack k枚nyv茅ben az a pl谩ne, hogy 1943-ban 铆r贸dott, 铆gy az 茅lm茅ny (brrrr鈥� h眉lye sz贸 ez itt) frissess茅g茅vel besz茅l Hamburg lebomb谩z谩s谩r贸l. Ha valaki 茅vtizedek t谩vlat谩b贸l visszatekintve igyekezne rekonstru谩lni egy v谩ros porig 茅g茅s茅t, alighanem a r谩rak贸dott ut贸lagos tud谩s torz铆tan谩 az elbesz茅l茅st: olyan elemekkel terheln茅 meg a t枚rt茅netet, ami akkor m茅g nem volt tudhat贸, 茅s esetleg olyanokkal, amik ugyan abban a pillanatban az elbesz茅l艖nek nem voltak fontosak, de fontoss谩 tett茅k 艖ket az az贸ta eltelt 茅vek. Ez茅rt ebben a k枚nyvben ne is keress眉k a terrorbomb谩z谩s horrorisztikus pillanatk茅peit 鈥� ilyenb艖l csak mutat贸ba akad 鈥�, 茅s azt se v谩rjuk el, hogy a szerz艖 teljess茅gre t枚rekedj茅k. Ez a k枚nyv sz眉ks茅gszer疟en csak t枚red茅k lehet, mert egyetlen ember benyom谩sait t眉kr枚zi, 茅s t枚red茅k az茅rt is, mert 铆r贸ja az id艖 j贸 r茅sz茅ben t谩volr贸l figyeli az esem茅nyeket 鈥� 茅s pont ez a t谩vols谩g 茅s t枚redezetts茅g teszi r谩 a hiteless茅g pecs茅tj茅t a sz枚vegre. Mert aki elmondhatja, hogy l谩tta Hamburg pusztul谩s谩t, annak megfelel艖 t谩vols谩gb贸l kellett azt n茅znie. K眉l枚nben nem mondhatna el semmit.

(脕ltal谩ban hi谩ny茅rzetem van, amikor lerakom a RaRe k枚nyvt谩r k枚teteit. Gondolom, tudatos koncepci贸 volt a Magvet艖t艖l, hogy a sz枚vegeket mindenfajta mell茅kelt inform谩ci贸 鈥� az 铆r贸 茅letrajzi adatai, esetleg egy ny煤lfarknyi kiad贸i ut贸sz贸 鈥� n茅lk眉l pottyantotta az 枚l眉nkbe, merthogy ugye a j贸 irodalom az mindenf茅le kontextust贸l megfosztva is j贸 irodalom. 脡n a magam r茅sz茅r艖l viszont szeretem az ut贸szavakat, s艖t: a j贸l meg铆rt ut贸szavakba konkr茅tan bele tudok szeretni. A j贸 ut贸sz贸 nem vakvezet艖 kutya, aki 谩tvonszol a k枚nyv s枚t茅ts茅g茅n eg茅szen a megfejt茅sig, mintha vil谩gtalan lenn茅k 鈥� de seg铆thet r谩mutatni a lehets茅ges olvasatok gazdags谩g谩ra. Pl谩ne nem 谩rtana ez a RaRe sorozat eset茅ben, ami egy茅bk茅nt is gyakran dolgozik olyan sz枚vegekkel, amik mintha picit csonkabonk谩k lenn茅nek. Amilyen p茅ld谩ul ez a k枚nyv.)
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November 5, 2016
I鈥檓 fully aware of the arrogance it takes for someone to argue that someone didn鈥檛 have the 鈥渃orrect鈥� perspective on the tragedy they experienced, but there is certainly something disturbing about the metaphysicality and transcendentalism in this text鈥檚 recounting of the 1943 bombing of Hamburg. Nossack constantly describes the events as 鈥渆ternal,鈥� an elimination of the past that makes everything appear as an act of 鈥渇ate.鈥� But it is precisely this matter of fate, or rather Necessity, that constantly arises as a problematic in historicism. To deny an event its past is to make it appear as if it were fate, to destroy the linearity of the causal timeline so that events appear as expressions of Necessity. However, one of the key issues that has always existed in historicism is to take historical events as acts of Necessity and simply attempting to retroactively construct the conditions that led to the Necessary.

But having a truly historical vision is to understand that past events were never mere steps along the teleological path to the present. Before the Event, there was always the possibility that it could not have happened. To call the horrific bombing of Hamburg a creation of fate or an expression of Necessity is to ignore the fact that before they happened, they could have not happened. We thus find in this memoir the same problem that we find in Elie Wiesel鈥檚 writings on the Holocaust. To call the Event metaphysical, atemporal, and ahistorical is to say that it must have happened and thus, to deny the possibility that we could have avoided it. To continue down the path of memorialization we see in this text is to blacken out the revealing light of historicism, the light that shows us how that we always have the ability to defy the Necessary and realize a better future for humanity.
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December 27, 2015
A sombre retelling of the bombing of hamburg by someone who lived through it. Well-written with sharp visual imagery.
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April 26, 2023
Het eerste verhaal 'de ondergang' is aangrijpend en prachtig. Het gaat over Hamburg, de stad die in 1943 als eerste ten prooi viel aan het bommentapijt dat de komende twee jaar over Duitsland zou vallen. De schrijver vertrekt met zijn vrouw net vlak voor de bombardementen, die drie nachten volop doorgaan, naar een zomerhuisje vlak buiten de stad. Ze zien het van ver gebeuren en gaan vlak daarna op zoek naar hun wijk en huis. Dit verhaal krijgt zeker vijf sterren, maar ik kon niet door de andere twee verhalen heenkomen. Vandaar drie sterren.
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February 24, 2016
I didn't appreciate Nossack's surrealistic musings about what he saw and experienced. I founded it tedious and at times incoherent.

Understand that this is a reflection of my tastes in literature. You might find it just zippy.

In any case, a starker, more grounded set of observations might have moved me more. At times Nossak does this, as when he describes the thirty-seven people who were trapped in a bomb shelter that was directly adjacent to a coal bin that had caught fire. They roasted.

But no...he turns inward and talks about himself and his experiences much more. He loses my sympathy very quickly.
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November 7, 2013
Personal accounts like these are best when they are passionate, descriptive, and most of all, concise. "The End" accomplishes all of these goals while eloquently describing the horrific burning of Hamburg. Nossack effectively conveys his story while admitting to the shortcomings of his narrative caused by poor memory and how he is limited to only is his personal experiences. Great worthwhile read that will only take you a day or two to finish.
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January 4, 2015
An interesting little book that captures the feeling of returning to one's home (or lack thereof) in the immediate aftermath of destruction. The writing offers a very sparse examination of the effects of on the remaining inhabitants and offers a number of seemingly incomplete vignettes of life.

As such, don't expect too much beyond a certain feeling or tone.
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October 28, 2018
"But even the most generous hand can become tired of giving, and it is even more difficult to learn to let oneself be the recipient of gifts and to receive, always and only to receive, without thereby losing one's freedom."

"So it came to pass that people who lived together in the same house and ate at the same table breathed the air of completely different worlds. They tried to reach out to each other, but their hands did not meet."

"The most dangerous thing was the words, 'could have.' It required a painful vigilance not to say 'could have.'"

"To an uninvolved observer it must have looked as if we had a lot of time; but actually we were driven. We didn't have much time; indeed, we no longer had any time at all, we were outside of time. Everything we did immediately lost its meaning."

"The cold, meanly divisive window glass was shattered, and through the wide openings the infinite behind man wafted unhindered into the endlessness before him and hallowed his countenance for the passage of what is beyond time."

"People were simply without a center."

"What surrounded us did not remind us in any way of what was lost. It had nothing to do with it. It was something else, it was strangeness itself, it was essentially not possible."

"But the dead did not wish to be conquered by logic. Today the number again wavers between sixty thousand and a hundred thousand, and no one dares to object. Why do they try to lie to the dead? Why don't they say: We can't count them! That would be a simple statement such as the dead, too, could understand."

"It is so incomprehensible that it cannot be weighed at all. And how dreadfully heavy that weight is -- so heavy that one dares not breathe and moves through the world only with great caution -- is almost impossible to put into words."

"All the things that surrounded us were only our guests."

"For what we have gained and what has changed is this: We have become present. We have slipped away from the precincts of time."
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209 reviews1 follower
March 2, 2025
Pairing this with my readings and course work around the Holocaust in German literature. I've been curious, in my perhaps fools-errand desire to always pair my judgement with my sympathy. Complexities and intellectual humility are my game, so I wanted to hear from voices who endured and witnessed some of the brutality the allies inflicted in the final stretches of the war.

Often times we feel uncomfortable with acknowledging suffering as it finds victims "on both sides of the gun" as it were. Beyond the brutalities and evil of the Nazis, beyond the bludgeoning destruction of cities and citizen, the real enemy (I would suggest) is our endless capacity to war against one another. Dehumanizing at the expense of our desire to domineer, to take and to possess. So, in some regard, any account of suffering is an account of the same human suffering.

Here it is at times beautifully articulated. There are some really moving passages, mostly those that escalate into the ultimate questions of life itself. How can so much be destroyed and lost so quickly? With that, how precariously do we hang on to our identities and histories within particular places... the accumulation of self that is projected in a home, with its memories, its histories, its objects like sacred artifacts to the memory of our selves. Then, how to be once all these things are shattered and quite physically scattered. How do you rebuild? Should you? What turns neighbours into strangers, into savages in the desperation of war? How can some drawn line divide one from another and claim they are enemies, simply due to the side on which they reside of this imaginary line?

These, and many questions articulated in this book, are perhaps not fully answerable. But the great work of compassion, of wisdom, of learning is to return to these questions again and again and hope that history will not continue its commitment to repeating the need for their articulation.

A worthy, desperate, beautiful and difficult little book.
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44 reviews2 followers
July 24, 2022
Coming in the form of a long autobiographic essay, Nossack's 1943 piece (published in post-war Germany, 1948) is a breathtaking contribution to anti-war literature.

The author describes his experience of the 1943 bomb attacks on Hamburg, as well as the following days.

Not taking any side apart from the side of humanity and humans, the reader gets an insight into the brutality of war, including the immaterial side of destruction.

As German post-war literature mostly comes in the form of reduced language and read-between-the-lines, Nossack's approach to processing "The End" of Hamburg is exactly the opposite: Flourishing, expressive, not shy of words and very precise about the horrors of the dead and the surviving.

Being as up-to-date as ever, Nossack's voice as a war survivor surely will be echoed by witnesses from Kyiv, Aleppo, Sanaa and the like someday.

[German language]
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25 reviews4 followers
March 14, 2018
A fascinating book (63 pages)...The translation by Joel Agee is in itself quite remarkable. The German author shares his reflections on the firebombing and all but total destruction of Hamburg by RAF and US firebombing over the period of a week in 1943. He wrote the book three (3) months after this event. Much of the text deals with how people cope with total loss of everything in their lives,; their homes, possessions and often family members and friends. The book is a short book and delves a great deal into the feelings of the author and people he met coping with the devastation of their lives after this singular event. Much of the psychology and reflections might well mirror the thoughts of those who have lost their homes, possessions, family and friends after contemporary fires, floods, and hurricanes.
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Author听7 books5 followers
March 30, 2018
It was W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction which alerted me to this book. It has a fine Foreword by the translator, Joel Agee, and incredible black-and-white photographs by Erich Andres.
Nossack's account of the devastation of Hamburg has a shell-shocked quality to its prose. One recalls sporadic details such as the fat green flies, the starving cats attacking the morsels of food that they have been given or the mangled frame of a grand piano through which a rose has grown and bloomed.
There is no anger here, no thirst for revenge. This is a benumbed landscape which can never be the same again. It is a very fine work.
82 reviews1 follower
October 10, 2020
I鈥檓 not sure about this book I wanted it to be something else not just the ramblings of someone who had lost everything in the bombing of Hamburg in 1943 but that鈥檚 the point what do you do when you lose all of your possessions, your apartment and place of work everything! You become consumed with grief , confusion and loss. The very things that the Author describes in details charred by fire themselves.
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Author听60 books20 followers
April 17, 2023
Not really what I expected.

I suppose I expected something more like "The Fire" by Jorg Friedrich, which gives you more of a historical context for the raids.

"The End" gives you a sense of devastation and loss and landmarks swept away. It didn't help that this short book had a long introduction that sampled parts of the text, so when you read these passages in the text, they were already familiar.
283 reviews2 followers
December 30, 2022
The author lived in Hamburg during the 1943 fire-bombing. Luckily he and his wife were on vacation in the mountains above Hamburg when the planes arrived but he lost his home and business. It is an interesting look into a person's reaction when they suddenly lose everything and well worth the read!!!
727 reviews8 followers
April 26, 2022
An account of the firebombing of Hamburg during WWII by a survivor including a lot of photos. A look at what happened to some of the cities in Germany and it's citizens.
160 reviews2 followers
July 1, 2023
Descrizione molto coinvolgente del bombardamento e distruzione di Amburgo nel luglio del 43. L'autore l'ha visto da lontano ed 猫 tornato in citt脿 per vedere se la sua casa era ancora in piedi.
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24 reviews
July 14, 2024
Avgrundssvart men ack s氓 viktig memoar fr氓n bombningarna av Hamburg.
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204 reviews
July 25, 2024
Poetic evocation of trauma, loss and devastation.Nossack manages to capture the unimaginable, the evanescent and the unfathomable with glorious imagery.
1,237 reviews6 followers
December 4, 2024
Sober and powerful description of the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. The writer uses metaphorical language that isn鈥檛 often used. In this context.
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670 reviews14 followers
October 19, 2016
This slim volume, which includes a foreword by Joel Agee (also translator) and photos by Erick Andres, packs a punch. Nossack is a writer who lived in Hamburg when it was destroyed by allied bombers in 1943. He happened to join his girlfriend at a cabin in the country--out of the ordinary for him--and thus missed the bombing. They heard the planes. I hadn't ever thought about the sound that 1800 planes make, "like an oppressive weight." (7) I hadn't realized it took more than one raid, that it happened over the course of 4 non-consecutive nights. A few months after the bombing, he wrote this account. He opens by saying he feels he's been given a mandate, that he must write about this. He repeats words like abyss, catastrophe, and calamity. Of course, he called the book "The End." He has moments of fancy, no doubt his writing style, but he's calm and objective. He criticizes neighbors who clapped when a plane was downed and says others were critical. He compares it to Odysseus chastising the old women who celebrated the suitors' deaths. "It is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men" (11).
12 Nossack considers his own fate and Hamburg's entwined.
14 Describes a river of refugees
15 Says all of Hamburg is now "on vacation."
18 "incomprehensible belongings"
18-19 He describes help offered willingly but then begrudgingly. And theft justified--because all has been lost. He explores envy of victims.
19-25 Misunderstandings bet givers /receivers.
22-23 "We no longer have a past."
24 Misi learns their apt destroyed
25 The trivial takes precedence; obsession with a deck chair
26 "But a unique work of art or a faded photo or an old doll from one's childhood, what does all this have to do with numbers? These things have their life from us, because at some time we bestowed our affection on them; they absorbed our warmth and harbored it gratefully in order to enrich us with it again in meager hours."
29 Many refugees forced to move south
30 He and Misi didn't go to Hamburg till Saturday--the last raid would be Monday.
31 "The force that drives a murderer back to his crime." [What?]
31 The survivors' conversations resemble those recounted in Diary of a Woman in Berlin; a shared experience
32 They feel the war is over for them. Really thought it would be a matter of days for the whole thing to end
33 "impotence of the state"
34 He says there was no general feeling of hatred toward enemy or wish that it had happened to others. Why should others suffer. "All this mss be said once and for all; for it redounds to the glory of man that on the day of reckoning he experience his fate with such largeness of spirit. Even though it was just for a brief period; for in the meantime the picture has become confused again."
36 Why he's writing--though he said at the beginning he felt he had to: "why go on? I mean, why record all this?"
36-37 Considers future readers: "what if they read it only to enjoy something strange and uncanny and to make themselves feel more alive."
38 Like tourists
38-9 cemetery
41 "Everything that men have to say about this is a lie. It is not permissible to talk about it except in the language of women" I don't really know what he means? Talk of domestic matters?
43 The numbers and "the Reich"
44 "worthless eagle chiseled"
47 Where was his office. A magazine? They save a typewriter and hide others.
50 They didn't look for friends. Too upsetting.
51 cats
53 The loss of everything, not heavy but incomprehensible
54 He sounds modern as he writes, "The stupid notion that women want to be possessed."
58 His journals lost [although translator says in foreword that he didn't lose manuscripts]
59 Fate
63 "The truly sad thing is the mind, because it thinks it has wings, but it keeps falling back to earth."
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185 reviews3 followers
February 9, 2017
Detailing Operation Gomorrah, the decimation of Hamburg by the Allies in 1943, this brief memoir is ... hard to stomach, beautifully written and an absolute testament to the horrors of war.

"Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima and Nagasaki" is what I texted [my friend who sent it to me] in regards to WW2 and the Allied annihilation of civilians.

I can't give this work more weight; it is heavy. So heavy.

"Even today [3-4 mos after the bombing] we are still unable to listen to music, we have to stand up and go away. When I say music I mean Bach's Air or something like that. There is something consoling in it, but it is precisely that consolation that makes us feel naked and helpless, at the mercy of a force that wants to destroy us."
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194 reviews97 followers
May 7, 2016
Peque帽a cr贸nica de la desolaci贸n moral y psicol贸gica que sigui贸 a la destrucci贸n sistem谩tica de Hamburgo por parte de la Royal Air Force en 1943. Murieron cuarenta mil personas, pero eso no lo sab铆a el autor cuando vio como la ciudad ard铆a hasta los cimientos desde un pueblo cercano. Tras constatar la destrucci贸n de su casa (y de toda la manzana, el barrio y la ciudad) el autor se convierte en refugiado, y en ese viaje se asoma al alma destruida de los que, como 茅l, lo han perdido todo, pero tambi茅n a la hip贸crita sociedad que les dio de lado y reneg贸 de ellos precisamente por haberlo perdido todo. El ser humano es el mismo en todas las 茅pocas y todos los lugares.
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22 reviews
March 15, 2010
This eye-witness account of the destruction of Hamburg, one of hundreds of cities in Germany targeted during the Second World War, is a profoundly horrifying and tragic tale of human savagery. Written with no trace of rancor or enmity, this straight-forward depiction and description of the carnage and devastation leaves no doubts as to the barbarity and blindness underlying the Allied bombings campaigns. Much like the historic baroque city of Dresden, Hamburg and its residence become helpless victims of war atrocities committed by the US and British air forces.
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592 reviews48 followers
July 28, 2011
This book has beautiful word choice and descriptions of one man's experience during and after the Hamburg bombing by the Allied forces in 1943. Originally written in German and kept from a widespread audience for years, this offers a rarely seen apolitical point of view from "the other side" of WWII - the Germans'. It also includes many photos taken around the destroyed Hamburg that only adds to the narrative. I would recommend this for anyone interested in WWII history.
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121 reviews3 followers
December 10, 2012
A most moving book written so lyrically that a year later I still see the images Nossack paints via language. One may ask for more, but this truly is just a snapshot of an event and the aftermath. It isn't meant to be a complete historical account, but as a personal documentation of one immersed in a tragedy that is but a shard from the millions that never shall be inked. Grateful for the translation of this little book -- truly a work of prose poetry. ~
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