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599 books · 160 voters · list created September 28th, 2011 by Lobstergirl (votes) .
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message 1: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl I deleted Fatherland, which is fiction.


message 3: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl Fiction removed.


message 4: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Nov 28, 2015 04:33PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @Lobstergirl
I'm not sure I would consider The Diary of a Young Girl (#44) German history...?


message 5: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl Booklovinglady wrote: "@Lobstergirl
I'm not sure I would consider The Diary of a Young Girl (#44) German history...?"


You mean because she was in Amsterdam? The Germans were occupying the Netherlands.


message 6: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl There are a lot of sockpuppet votes on here. I'm not going to do anything about it, I'm just saying.


message 7: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited Nov 28, 2015 10:13PM) (new)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads My, my, there certainly are.

ETA: Sockpuppets or fanboys, could be both.


message 8: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Nov 29, 2015 05:23AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Lobstergirl wrote: "You mean because she was in Amsterdam? The Germans were occupying the Netherlands...."

But there are an awful lot of books written about the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII. I should know, as I'm Dutch :-) But personally I'd consider those books Dutch history, not German history, which is also why I have my doubts about Anne Frank's diary being on this list.

It would be different if a book was written by a German author, living in Germany, telling facts from a German point of view, and so on and so forth, as WWII is part of German history too. I'm not sure how to explain, but it just doesn't feel the same. I just can't see Anne Frank's diary as German history, only as Dutch history. I mean, WWII is part of both Dutch and German history, but from different points of view, as the Netherlands were the occupied and Germany was the occupant (which, coming to think of it, is probably the best way to put this whole history question into words).


message 9: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl Well, I think it's Dutch history as well as German history. She was a German writer, after all. Her POV was partly German given that her origins were German.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Lobstergirl wrote: "Well, I think it's Dutch history as well as German history. She was a German writer, after all. Her POV was partly German given that her origins were German."

She was not even five years old when she came to the Netherlands, so to say she was a German author... But I can see your point (and hope you can see mine too).


message 11: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl #1 book is currently Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs with 42 votes. This has the suspicious appearance of a campaign to vote up this book.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads The voting patterns on that one are interesting; a number look to be real, and others very dubious.


message 13: by Lobstergirl (last edited Jun 06, 2019 10:51PM) (new)

Lobstergirl Removed Crabwalk which is fiction. Also, suspiciously, voted on by 31 people who looked like they were coordinating their voting. All had one name, had shelved a similar number of books, a similar number of friends, etc.


message 14: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl And by the way I have the same suspicions about The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century.

58 voters all with uncanny similarities.

Normal voting is not that uniform.


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