Rainer Hildebrandt Book order

New edition of the publication of Rainer Hildebrandt (first published in 1948): ”We are the Last. From the Life of the Resistance Fighter Albrecht Haushofer and his Friends”, supplemented by numerous photos and original documents, comments, index of names, forewords by Haushofer family members and an introduction by Alexandra Hildebrandt, publisher. . and when the visitor encounters Rainer Hildebrandt, he asks him: „What gave you the idea to establish the museum?“ Silently the legendary founder and head of the Berlin Wall Museum “Haus am Checkpoint Charlie„ leads him to the part of the exhibition that is dedicated to the resistance against Hitler where the tour through the museum starts. Hildebrandt stops at the photo boards. “The contemporaries deserve a long look. I lost my best friends, Albrecht Haushofer and Horst Heilmann, during the reign of the Nazis and was imprisoned myself for 17 months. I have learnt to fight against injustice. My great joy about Hitler's end was soon followed by great worry about the fate of occupied and divided Germany. This is why I founded the „Task Force against Inhumanity“ in 1948 and this museum after the construction of the Wall. It all started in a 2½-bedroom apartment, now the exhibition space is over 2.000 m²." (From the introduction)

The publication is a collection of 50 articles by Rainer Hildebrandt which regularly appeared in the daily press during the years 1949 to 1993 and provide an overview of the Soviet NKVD-camps on political arrest in the GDR, from the people’s uprising of “June 17”, 1953, escapes from the GDR and the construction of the Wall on “August 13”, 1961 to the non-violent movements of the eighties and nineties. The former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher wrote in his foreword: “The fact that today, in Europe, we stand at the beginning of a new chapter in history and that a new culture of living together has now become possible in a Europe founded upon the equality of birth and of rights is, not least, due to people like Rainer Hildebrandt“.