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Moabit Sonnets

Moabit Sonnets

Haushofer, Albrecht
Norton, Herter
Norton, M. Herter

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0393045323
ISBN13: 9780393045321
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Nov 1 1978
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Just before Christmas 1944, Albrecht Haushofer had been delivered to the Gestapo prison in the Moabit district of Berlin. In solitary confinement, fettered hand and foot, he awaited a show trial with a predetermined outcome. After a while he was allowed some sheets of paper and a pencil. He began to write sonnet after sonnet describing his days and nights in prison, shared with comrades of the Resistance who were one after another taken away to the hangman. From Moabit his mind soared out to the world he had known and loved: the lands near and far he had visited, the men and women who meant most to him, the literary and artistic treasures of the past he valued most of all. Sometimes he wrote in sorrow over the destruction of this precious heritage, sometimes in anger against those who had led his people on the road to war. But mostly he wrote in praise and love, as he conversed with the dead and the living dearest to him.

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