I think Rosina mentioned the Prussian girl somewhere upthread. I'm pretty sure my German sensibilities would not be insulted by a biased description of a Prussian girl. I understand that some Enid Blyton books have been censored later to take out some racist or classicist sentiments, but I think that these things should be left in, as they reflect the era in which a book was written.
There's a German series written between 1913 and 1925 about a young girl ("Nesthäkchen") growing up in the Wilhelminian and Weimar Republic periods, and one of the books gives the German perspective of the First Wolrd War. It has been ouf of print in Germany since 1945, which I think is an example of censorship going overboard. It would have made such a fascinating document of a period.
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Date: 2008-08-21 05:15 pm (UTC)There's a German series written between 1913 and 1925 about a young girl ("Nesthäkchen") growing up in the Wilhelminian and Weimar Republic periods, and one of the books gives the German perspective of the First Wolrd War. It has been ouf of print in Germany since 1945, which I think is an example of censorship going overboard. It would have made such a fascinating document of a period.