Author: Joachim C. Fest
Publisher: London: Atlantic Books, 2012
Annotation: By German Historian born in 1926, Joachim Fest writes his own autobiography of his childhood growing up in Berlin during the early yearly of Nazi Germany. His parents were devout Catholics and they associated themselves with intellectual catholic clergy and had many close Jewish friends but had absolutely no interest in both Communist and Nazi philosophy.
The book shows how stimulating it can be for a young and developing mind to see current events of young German soldiers marching passed through his household. How his parochial thoughts collided with other young generation. It accounts of how his father's unwillingness to join the Nazi party led to him being banned from employment. The book tries to give a striking notion of no matter how the world has viewed of the Third Reich but his father and himself believed that Hitler's supporters came from dirt and that's where they belonged. It's the people like him who has given them identity just because of the historical significance of that time otherwise they don't deserve to be recognised.
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