num_pages: 224
description: From winner of Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Friedrich and for readers of Number the Stars  and If I Should Die Before I Wake . Hans and his friend Gunther, are just trying to get through life with Adolf Hitler being elected in Germany. Gunther's father was against Hitler, but eight-year-olds Hans and Gunther join the SS youth program, and later enter the military, where they are swept away by Hitler's regime.
language: English
title: I Was There
titlecomplete: I Was There
genres: World War II, School, History, Childrens, Germany, Nonfiction, Holocaust, 20th Century
ratings_count: 190
publisher: Puffin Books