Don’t Let Them See You Cry by Irmgard Powell
December 29th, 2008Title: Don’t Let Them See You Cry
Author: Imgard Powell
Publisher: Orange Frazer Press (2008)
This was an interesting book. Imgard Powell was a German child during World War II. Her father was the Third Reich’s Minister of Health, but she rarely heard her parent’s anti-Semitic feelings. Her family was living in Berlin when the city was destroyed by the Russian air attack. In fact there are some pictures in the book of her room, which is basically rubble. After that attack, her family sent her away to the safety of other German cities. It was while she was away that she suffered a terrible accident and had to have her leg amputated.
Eventually she met an American soldier stationed in Germany and they married. They moved to the United States and she currently lives somewhere around Dayton, OH. She has lived a happy life and does not harbor the same anti-Semitic feelings the previous German generation had.
The most interesting part of the book occurred as she tried to figure out her German heritage. Having a father who was so prominent in the Nazi party caused a lot of guilt (along with a lot of other children of Nazis.)
This book moved along a little slowly but is worth reading for anyone interesting in the WWII generation.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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