Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy - 9780896803084

Camp Life Is Paradise for FreddyA Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 19331946\nAuthor(s): Fred Lanzing, Marjolijn de Jager, William H. Frederick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780896803084, 978-0896803084\nSynopsis\n\""Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,\"" David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country. It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists in the East Indies during the World War II.\n When published in the Netherlands in 2007, the book triggered controversy, if not vitriol, for Lanzing's assertion that his time in the camp was not the compendium of horrors commonly associated with the Dutch internment experience. Despite the angry reception, Lanzing's account corresponds more closely with th.