This is a disturbing and intimate portrait of Germany and the Third Reich from the recaptured perspective of a highly-perceptive child. A censored version of this memoir was first published in 1983. This is posthumous, complete uncensored story. As the war rages on, young Winfried's feelings of security and normalcy within his family and country dissolve into fear and confusion. His father, an SS Officer, disappears... Germany crumbles... the American occupation begins.