Tim Pröse liest: "Wir Kinder des 20. Juli"

In the organizer's words:

Bestselling author Tim Pröse is a guest in Regensburg with his new book. In "We Children of July 20", he lets war children have their say and immortalizes the last voices of the resistance against Hitler.

"The Count Stauffenberg family will be wiped out down to the last link." This is how Heinrich Himmler announced in 1944 how the Nazi regime would react to the failed Hitler assassination attempt of July 20: with relentless revenge. Not only were two hundred people involved in the conspiracy executed. Their families were also to suffer and be forgotten. The children were snatched from their parents, abducted, put in homes - they would grow up without their father or mother.

80 years later, bestselling author Tim Pröse visited these daughters and sons of the resistance against Hitler, accompanied them and listened to them. What memories of that time have shaped them? How did they find their way through this zero hour, which did not even grant them and their mothers and fathers a gravestone as a place of mourning? What legacy did they inherit from their courageous parents? What message do they have for posterity at a time when democracy in Germany is once again facing hostility from war, dictators and radical forces?

"I will see him again." This is how Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg remembers the father he saw for the last time as a boy. He and many other sons and daughters of the resistance fighters of July 20th bring their memories, ideals and hopes to life in Tim Pröse's haunting portraits.

The result is a tribute to the men and women of the military, political, civilian and Christian resistance from the perspective of their descendants. Tim Pröse not only met Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, but also Klaus von Dohnanyi, Carl Goerdeler, Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, Helmuth Caspar Graf von Moltke and many others.

At the reading in the Regensburg City Library, he will talk about these encounters and enter into conversation with visitors: Which stories about the resistance against Hitler made a particular impression on them? Pröse was already a guest at the city library in 2021 and impressed the audience with his friendly and engaging manner.

Admission €5, reduced €3, reservations by email to veranstaltungen.stadtbuecherei@regensburg.de, advance booking from August 1.

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