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Tags: germany -- history -- 1933-1945 -- fiction.

  • Daniel Half Human

    by David Chotjewitz

    At the dawn of Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933 and a period of the most brutal, aggressive anti-Semitism the world has ever seen, two boys swear eternal brotherhood by slitting their wrists and mingling their blood. Having experienced so much together, even a night in jail after painting a swastika on a wall in the hated Communist section of Hamburg, Daniel and Armin had become the best of friends. But... (more)
  • Something Remains

    by Inge Barth-Gro?zinger

    Erich Levi doesn't understand why his father is so gloomy when the Nazis are elected to power. He's too concerned with keeping his grades up, finding time to hang out by the river with his friends, and studying for his bar mitzvah, to worry about politics. But slowly, gradually, things begin to change for Erich.  Some of the teachers begin to grade him unfairly - because he's Jewish.  The Hitler Youth boys in his... (more)