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The day the Nazis came, Stephen R. Matthews ; read by Barnaby Edwards

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The day the Nazis came

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Stephen R. Matthews ; read by Barnaby Edwards

The true story of one British child's journey from Nazi-occupied Guernsey to a German prison camp. By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked with Jewish prisoners straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen. He had nearly drowned, narrowly avoided being savaged by Alsatian guard dogs, been beaten by a pathological member of the SS and had his hand broken by a guard whilst attempting to feed a Russian prisoner. The family kept going through three and a half years of imprisonment, reinforced by their strong sense of survival and their loving support for each other, before a dramatic and violent liberation by Allied forces ended their ordeal. Yet when they were eventually returned to Guernsey, it was to find that their tranquil home had been stricken and scarred by Nazi occupation. Told through Stephen's own memories, as well as writing from his mother's diaries, The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir. It depicts the world of Nazi prison camps through the eyes of a child

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