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DESTINED TO WITNESS - HANS J MASSAQUOI KARTONIE...

This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness  Hans Massaquoi has crafted a
beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child
in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse  Hans remained behind with
his mother when Hitler came to power  due to concerns about his fragile health  after his
father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys  Hans went to school  like other German boys
he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. So he was crushed to learn that  as a black child  he
was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual
profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that  at any moment  he might hear the Gestapo
banging on the door -- or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic  moving  and deeply human 
Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence.

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