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The Day the Nazis Came

The True Story of a Childhood Journey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

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The Day the Nazis Came

By: Stephen Matthews
Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
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The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through the eyes of a child. Stephen's parents did their best to protect his emotional well-being, downplaying the extent of dangers and presenting every new day as an adventure.

But there is only so much you can do to hide such a dark truth and, by the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had actually seen and experienced things of unspeakable horror: he had witnessed a bombardment by the Luftwaffe and had been deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich; he had seen men die in front of him; he had walked alongside Jews coming straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen; he had nearly drowned, been menaced by an Alsatian guard dog, and had his hand broken by a German guard for attempting to feed Russian prisoners.

Against all odds, Stephen and his family endured over three years of imprisonment, held together by their will to survive, their love for each other, and the humor they had all been gifted with. But when the war ended and they were set free, the home they eventually returned to had been irremediably scarred and stricken by Nazi occupation and so, once again, they had to fight to pick up the pieces.

©2021 Stephen R. Matthews (P)2021 Tantor
Military Wars & Conflicts World War II War Witty Holocaust
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A wonderful listen. You won't regret the time invested to engage with this wonderful story.

So we'll narrated....engaging.

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love and lack of bigotry by the islanders no matter what they faces. Love and laughter kept them alive.

Life in the Hardest of Times

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Little known story about British internees in a Nazi concentration camp. I did not know about this. Fascinating

Excellent!

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Excellent listen of a child’s view and recollection of his life in a concentration camp.

Loved it

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i guess the Nazis were different in the islands. He makes it seem so acmenackle, other places were shear terror.

friendly Nazis

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His family survived the war. They spent most of their time together and even received Red Cross care packages... And oh my goodness, someone had stolen bread with real strawberry jam from him! What a travesty! If you want to know the real atrocities of the n*zi regime. Read a book written by a Jewish person who survived Aschwitz.

The hardships in this book, can't compare to what people went through at the death camps.

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