Jürgen von Rosen and Martha von Rosen
edited by Elvi Whittaker

About the Book

Baroness Martha von Rosen, a Baltic German aristocrat, and her memories of the last year of the Second World War and the diary of her late husband, Baron Jürgen von Rosen, taken prisoner by the Allied forces during the war, together pay homage to the assertion that history can be a decidedly individual event.

Martha von Rosen has written a moving and truly heroic account of her flight from Geppertsfeld, Poland.

In his diary, the Baron gives a standing testimonial to the horrors of imprisonment. He chronicles an experience quite foreign to our conventional knowledge of the enemy in the immediate post-war years, and the conduct of the Allied forces toward their captives.

About the Editor

Elvi Whittaker is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

The Reminiscences of Martha von Rosen

1. From Geppertsfeld to the Oder
2. From the Oder to the Elbe
3. An End to Flight
4. Life Under Soviet Occupation
5. Marking Time
6. New Surprises
7. Reconnaissance
8. Reunion
9. The Last Return

The Diary of Jürgen von Rosen

Introduction by Elvi Whittaker

1. Bellaria, Camp 14
2. From Bellaria to Ile-de-France
3. Forced Labour Camps in France
4. Ried, Upper Bavaria

Life in Canada: The Open World, by Martha von Rosen

Editor's Afterword: Some Anthropological Reflections on Ethnography, War, Ethnicity and Other Matters

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