Wilhelm Kriessmann's Memoir of 1925 to 1938

By carolyn , 10 May 2010

VoR_The_Heretics_Hour_20100510.mp3 (11.66 MB)

May 10, 2010

Carolyn talks with Dr. Kriessmann about his book When I was a Schoolteacher’s Boy, a chronicle of his youth in Feistritz im Rosental (Austria) during the turbulent years between the World Wars. Topics include:

  • A nationalist family
  • School fraternities and the Hitler Youth
  • The Austrian Anchluss, the culmination of hopes

0 hour 51 min.