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30 April 1945: The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germanys Integration with the West Began

English

By (author): Alexander Kluge

Translated by: Wieland Hoban

A reissue of Alexander Kluge's kaleidoscopic view of a historically important day and its effects on many peoples lives.

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, and, in San Francisco, the United Nations was being founded.

Alexander Kluges latest book, 30 April 1945, covers this single historic day and unravels its passing hours across the different theaters of the Second World War. Translated by Wieland Hoban, the book delves into the events happening around the world on one fateful day, including the life of a small German town occupied by American forces and the story of two SS officers stranded on the forsaken Kerguelen Islands in the South Indian Sea. Kluge is a master storyteller, and as he unfolds these disparate tales, one unavoidable question surfaces: What is the appropriate reaction to the total upheaval of the status quo?

Presented here with an afterword by Reinhard Jirgl, translated by Iain Galbraith, 30 April 1945 is a riveting collection of lives turned upside down by the deadliest war in history. The collective experiences Kluge paints here are jarring, poignant, and imbued with meaning. Seventy years later, we can still see our own reflections on the upheaval of a single day in 1945. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781803092294

About Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Wieland Hoban writes regularly for Muzik and Ästhetik and Fragmen and the book series New Music & Aesthetics in the 21st  Century. He has translated several works from German including those by Theodor W. Adorno and Sibylle Lewitscharoff.

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