The Broken House

The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler

Horst Krüger (author)

Translated by Shaun Whiteside 

Twenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, people lived ordinary lives, believed in God, obeyed the law, and were gradually seduced by the promises of Nazism.

He had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. With tragic inevitability, this world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble.

Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, The Broken House is a moving coming-of-age story that provides a searing portrait of life under the Nazis.

Horst Krüger (1919-99) was a German journalist, novelist and travel writer. Published in 1966, The Broken House was critically acclaimed as an exemplary portrait of youth in Nazi Germany.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (16 Jun. 2022)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781529113198
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.85 x 1.27 x 19.84 cm