num_pages: 256
description: Jurgen Herbst’s account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948 is a boy’s experience of anti-Semitism and militarism from the inside. Herbst was a middle-class boy in a Lutheran family that saw value in Prussian military ideals and a mythic German past. His memoir is a compelling, understated tale of moral awakening.
language: English
title: Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis
titlecomplete: Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis
genres: Nonfiction, History, World War II, Memoir
ratings_count: 25
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press