The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Buruma Ian
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Buruma Ian Ian Buruma's spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures--a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler's…
Specifikacia The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Buruma Ian
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Buruma Ian
Ian Buruma's spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures--a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler's masseur--who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between.On the face of it, the three characters in this book seem to have little in common--aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. Felix Kersten was a plump Finnish pleasure-seeker who became Heinrich Himmler's indispensable personal masseur--Himmler calling him his "magic Buddha." Kersten presented himself after the war as a resistance hero who convinced Himmler to save countless people from mass murder. All three were mythmakers, larger-than-life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point.
Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender-fluid Manchu princess, spied for