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Walter Kempowski

Born

in Rostock, Germany

April 29, 1929

Died

October 05, 2007

Genre

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Walter Kempowski was a German writer. He was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 6,195 ratings · 867 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors

	All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski, Jenny Erpenbeck (Introduction), Anthea Bell (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,828 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 2007 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski, Michael Lipkin (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 1971 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marrow and Bone by Walter Kempowski, Charlotte Collins (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heeft u Hitler gezien? 4.22 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1975 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aus großer Zeit (Die deutsche Chronik, Band 1) 4.19 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uns geht's ja noch gold (Die deutsche Chronik #5) 4.23 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ein Kapitel für sich. 4.25 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schöne Aussicht. 4.35 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echolot; Barbarossa '41 Ein Kollektives Tagebuch 4.57 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Walter Kempowski

Deutsche Chronik (9 books)
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Walter Kempowski

4.03 avg rating — 997 ratings

Das Echolot (5 books)
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4.25 avg rating — 693 ratings

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“They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.”
― Walter Kempowski, Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich

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“Perhaps that was the day when the bombed synagogue opened again. Or the one when I went to a cobbler who was repairing shoes with the leather from stolen Torah rolls. "I didn't know it was sacred leather," he said. We collected all the pieces together, and he refused the money that I tried to give him for a few ladies' shoes with Hebrew letters written in ancient ink on the soles.”
― Walter Kempowski, Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich

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“As always when he went abroad, Jonathan regarded the German passport officers with a degree of wistfulness. Soon he would be placing himself under foreign sovereignty, a guest; he would have to hold his tongue instead of being allowed to demonstrate his superiority. When you'd started a world war, murdered Jews and taken people's bicycles away (in Holland) the cards were stacked against you.”
― Walter Kempowski, Marrow and Bone

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