How old is hitlers daughter

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First published in , Hitler's Daughter has sold over , copies in Australia alone and has received great critical acclaim, both in Australia and the twelve counties where it has been published. It has also been adapted into an award-winning play by Monkey Baa Theatre. When I was 14, trying to do my German homework, I came across a passage I couldn't translate. My mother called a friend of hers who spoke German to help me. It was late by then. He came over, and my mother went to bed, and we worked on the translation.

But I think something in the story we were translating must have moved him and perhaps he'd been drinking too- he hadn't known he was going to be called out to help a kid with her homework. Because there in the silent house, he began to tell me quite a different story. He told me about a year-old boy, in Hitler's Germany, who joined the Nazi Party, because his parents were Nazis, his teachers were nazis.

All he had ever heard or read said it was good to be a Nazi. He believed it all- the duty to rid the race of anyone who was blind, or lame, who was Jewish or Gypsy or homosexual, or anyone who believed in their religion more than Hitler, or who disagreed with his policies and had the courage to say so. He became a guard in a concentration camp because that is what year-old boys were doing in Germany at the end of the war.

And when the war was over he was illegally smuggled out of Germany, with his parents, as many Nazi war criminals were. He said to me 'When you are 14, and the world around you is insane, how do you know what is good and what is evil? How do you know? And he had only been 14…. I forgot his words for many years.

Then ten years ago I took my mother, my brother, my cousin and my year-old son to the theatre to see Cabaret for my mother's 70th birthday. The play is set in Germany, just as Hitler is coming to power. Half way through the teenage waiter sings the most beautiful song 'Tomorrow belongs to me.

I watched as my son stared at the singer entranced. As he said to me later 'That song was about me and my friends. Tomorrow belongs to us. Then half way through the song it changes.