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The Auslander
The Auslander
The Auslander
Paul Dowswell
When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. But Peter is Volksdeutscher-of German blood. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler Youth poster. The Nazis decide he is racially valuable. Indeed, a prominent German family is pleased to adopt such a fine Aryan specimen into their household. But despite his new "family," Peter feels like a foreigner-an ausländer-and he is forming his own ideas about what he sees and what he's told. He doesn't want to be a Nazi. So he takes a risk-the most dangerous one he could possibly choose in 1942 Berlin. . . .Paul Dowswell weaves meticulous research into a thrilling narrative, exposing a different angle of the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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Genre: 

  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
The Auslander review by CWay_RPEMS
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It's the early 1940s during World War II. Poland has been occupied by Nazi Germany. After Peter's parents die in a car crash in Wyszkow, Poland, he is taken to the capital, Warsaw, for testing by German soldiers. He is proclaimed German and adopted by Professor Kaltenbach and his wife, who live in Berlin with their three daughters. Peter attends school there and adjusts to his new life by joining the local HJ squad, a team of teenage boys who perform duties for the city and help collect supplies for soldiers.

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