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It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read My Road to Peace Pt. 1 - 1916-1924 by Antje Scheumann

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Some years ago, by chance, the diaries of Lotte Hedwig Minna Pflugradt (* 07/08/1903 +17/06/1979) fell into my mother's hand. She is the daughter of Minna Mathilde Antonie Kriegbaum (* 13/06/1874 + 20/05/1953) and Wilhelm Albert Ferdinand Pflugradt (* 11/05/1867 +27/11/1953).Lotte had an older brother Kurt (* 17/06/1897 + 19/07/1972) and two older sisters, Katharina Minna Hedwig (* 09/12/1899 +03/04/1975) called Käthe, and Wanda (* 22/08/1902 +27/04/1967).The Pflugradt family lived until 15/03/1918 in Szczecin-Bredow, then briefly in Jasenitz, from 15/12/1919 in Ziegenort and from 13/09/1920 again in Jasenitz. All places are on the Oder shortly before the Szczecin Lagoon.Lotte spent her childhood and youth with her 3 siblings. She was 11 years old at the beginning of World War I. She got her first diary at the age of 12 in 1916. She wrote her entries in Sütterlin" writing.She wrote with more or less great interruptions until 1924, that is, we get a little insight into the life of a pubertal and then young woman in the German Empire in World War I in the countryside in Pomerania.Lotte also mentions the Russian Revolution and the abdication of the Emperor. From then on she lived in the Weimar Republic until 1924.Lotte was not a decidedly political person, but every now and then there are a few remarks about the circumstances.Lotte was a passionate reader in her childhood, among others also dime novels. She devoured them, so to speak, and was always enthusiastic about the dramatic complications. In the summer of 1917 she suddenly wrote that she no longer wanted to read any novels, because they distracted her and made her unsure that she suddenly found them completely trivial and unworthy.Unfortunately, it is not clear where this finding comes from. Has anyone affected her and ruined her pleasure? Or is the turn to the "seriousness" of her puberty with now almost 14 years to owe?Her daughter Lisa-Käthe (my mother) said that her mother always scolded her when she read. This was useless idleness, so to speak "nothing". "Do not sit around and do nothing, do this and do that," which then meant housework. Too bad that she had obviously forgotten what she herself had previously enjoyed.From the child to the woman we may accompany her a little. During this time she also meets her future husband, Willi August Otto Völz (* 28/09/1903 +12/1984), whom she marries only after the end of the diary entries on 27/05/1927.These diaries are a testimony of 9 very important years of Germany, when the change from the Empire through the First World War to the first democracy took place.I have chronologically inserted the diaries. It starts with number 4, in which Lotte has obviously written off a story.Between her personal records there are entries about finances or even poems, some words were no longer recognizable from Lottes Sütterlin handwriting, so there are also some gaps.I left the grammar as Lotte wrote it down. In my opinion, one can sometimes suddenly feel how Lotte really spoke and turned Pomeranian Low German into High German.I think that the diaries give a nice insight into the growing up of a woman at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany and hope you enjoy reading!The transfer of the diaries from the Sütterlinscript into Latin script was done by the "Sütterlinstube Hamburg", for which I would like to say a big thank you!

How long is My Road to Peace Pt. 1 - 1916-1924?

My Road to Peace Pt. 1 - 1916-1924 by Antje Scheumann is 182 pages long, and a total of 45,864 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read My Road to Peace Pt. 1 - 1916-1924 aloud.

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