The Dismantled House My youth in Hitler's Germany

Horst Krüger

Horst Krieger's Dismantled House is a chronicle of his youth in Hitler's Germany. He grew up in a suburb of Berlin. His parents and neighbors lived a normal, non-politicized life, believing in God and obeying the law. Gradually, however, they were fascinated and poisoned by the promises of Nazism. How did this happen; Krieger was "a typical son of ruthless Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do what they did." The book was published in 1966, tearing the veil of silence for the first time, as it revealed indigestible truths about the wounded German nation. It was out of circulation for decades, but was reissued in 2019 and then translated into many languages, with great success.