An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski review life under the Nazis
Briefly

Historical atrocity appears, not in nightmarish chiaroscuro, but edging into and around the fabric of ordinary life.
The whole family was photographed: Mother in her pelerine dress, Robert sailing, and me in my Hamburg suit. Even father, in his SA uniform, standing under a birch tree.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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