The Broken House of Horst Krüger 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, believed in God, and obeyed the laws. Gradually, however, they were fascinated and poisoned by the promises of Nazism. How did this happen? Krüger was "the typical son of innocent Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have succeeded in doing what they did."

The book was published in 1966, tearing the veil of silence for the first time, as it revealed difficult truths about the traumatized nation of Germans. It was out of print for decades but was republished in 2019 and subsequently translated into many languages, achieving great success. "A book about Germany without lies," wrote Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the leading German literary critic and Holocaust survivor. "A warning book for our times."

Contents:

• 1. A Place Like Eichkamp
• 2. A Requiem for Ursula
• 3. My Friend Vanya
• 4. Under Detention
• 5. 1945: Zero Hour
• 6. Day of Judgment

EPILOGUE: Ten Years Later

AFTERWORD: Martin Mosebach, The Broken House. For the 100th birthday of Horst Krüger.