Dear Daddy, How’s The Weather Where You Are?

In this book of remembrances, Michael Kogon describes the dramatic history of his family in National Socialism. Immediately after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, his father Eugen Kogon was arrested in March 1938 as one of the original members of the resistance. Soon after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, where Eugen Kogon had been a prisoner, he wrote the seminal work Der SS-Staat, published in English as The Theory and Practice of Hell. Thereafter he would become one of the young West German republic’s best-known journalists. Michael Kogon illustrates his memoirs with letters as well as secret notes that his father was able to hide from the Gestapo or smuggle out of the concentration camp, as well as with all of the letters that his children sent him in prison.

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  • Publisher: Pattloch
  • Release: 01.09.2014
  • ISBN: 978-3-629-13054-9
  • 544 Pages
  • Author: Michael Kogon
Buchcover von Dear Daddy, How’s The Weather Where You Are?: Erinnerungen an meinen Vater Eugen Kogon
Michael Kogon Dear Daddy, How’s The Weather Where You Are?
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Michael Kogon

Michael Kogon, born 1928 in Vienna, is the oldest son of Eugen Kogon (author of The Theory and Practice of Hell and editor of the political magazine Frankfurter Hefte). Michael is an economist, a doctor of economics and political science, an author, and a translator. Recently he has been in the public eye as editor of his father’s writings and as translator of the works of the French diplomat and essayist Stèphane Hessel (Idignez-Vous!). Kogon lives in Füllinsdorf, Switzerland. He is married, with three children and four grandchildren.