On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940-46 was written by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg during WWII. Her letters are filled with her personal opinions as well as great insight on what was happening from a German point of view. In her first letter Wolff-Monckeberg says “This war would be conducted with the most horrible weapons and resources, its whole justification based on a daily incitement of lies, not an honest war, but an illegal and mean exploitation, as far as we were concerned.” The first letter clearly states Wolff-Monckeberg views of Germany’s participation in the second world war as “Fuhrer’s blind lust for conquest” Wolff-Monckeberg makes this ever apparent with letters about, Nazi invasions into other countries,
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She explains things like
Piles of glass-splinters and heaps of rubble, the house next to the corner one no more than a mountain of smoking ashes, a mother with three children buried underneath. Another sixy dead and many hurt and wounded. High explosives fell along the Alester leaving huge craters in the front gardens, several meters deep, and a comfortless winter sky was looking through the big gaps in the walls of houses. What a terrible sight!
Wolff-Monckeberg throughout all of her passages goes into grave detail about exactly what is happening and the horrific scenes her daughters are missing. These passages are filled with hate and anger towards the Natzi party.
Listen to what it says in today’s Sunday paper. ‘It is reported that in the south-east territory near the Ilmensee 100 German dive-bombers attacked troop concentrations. From dawn till dusk our planes showered bombs of all calibres onto Bolshevik troops. There was excellent visibility...Eight hundred dead were left on the field of the German advance.’ And one does not freeze in terror. One puts the paper aside without having taken in this horrible
She explains things like
Piles of glass-splinters and heaps of rubble, the house next to the corner one no more than a mountain of smoking ashes, a mother with three children buried underneath. Another sixy dead and many hurt and wounded. High explosives fell along the Alester leaving huge craters in the front gardens, several meters deep, and a comfortless winter sky was looking through the big gaps in the walls of houses. What a terrible sight!
Wolff-Monckeberg throughout all of her passages goes into grave detail about exactly what is happening and the horrific scenes her daughters are missing. These passages are filled with hate and anger towards the Natzi party.
Listen to what it says in today’s Sunday paper. ‘It is reported that in the south-east territory near the Ilmensee 100 German dive-bombers attacked troop concentrations. From dawn till dusk our planes showered bombs of all calibres onto Bolshevik troops. There was excellent visibility...Eight hundred dead were left on the field of the German advance.’ And one does not freeze in terror. One puts the paper aside without having taken in this horrible