Hans-Georg Behr (1937–2010)

This book is the (fictional) memoir of a little boy whose father was in the very high upper ranks, a boy who met "uncle" Josef [Goebbels] and "uncle" Hermann [Göring] and "uncle" Ernst [Kaltenbrunner, head of SS security & Gestapo], etc. It's all about his childhood, with his rather abusive, cold mother, absent father, and really rich grandparents (who were not in favor of Nazis). Sadly, having Nazis as parents does not make for a very happy childhood, and The Boy has trouble fitting in with anyone at all, both at home and outside of it.

This is a very different side than we usually read about in WWII accounts. Not the side we usually see. You feel really bad for all the stuff this poor kid went through, being so young and having no idea what was really going on or why all this stuff was happening to him, and of course having no choice in his parents. It certainly wasn't the nightmare of the camps, but he had no easy time of it, and it's a bit eye-opening to see how destructive things could be on that side of it all, also.… (meer)