Auslander
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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.
Paul Dowswell
A former senior editor with Usborne Publishing, Paul Dowswell is now a full-time author. He has written over 60 books, including Ausländer, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, the Red House Children's Book Award and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Paul lives in Wolverhampton with his family.
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Reviews for Auslander
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A well-researched novel about a Polish boy, Peter Bruck, with a German father who is adopted by a rabid Nazi and taken to Berlin after his parents are killed in Poland by Russians. Peter becomes less and less enchanted by Nazi dogma, especially when he befriends Anna, daughter of liberal anti-Nazi Germans. A very evocative novel which shines a well-deserved light on ordinary Germans who were anti-Nazi and lived in daily fear of being denounced.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Auslander means outsider and to the Polish orphan Peter, it's how he feels living in Nazi Germany. His foster family the Kaltenbachs are 100% behind the Nazi cause and haave only agreed to take Peter in because of his poster-boy Aryan features. He is Volksdeutscher: of German blood but Peter is an independant thinker and doesn't totally agree with what he is seeing unfolding around him. This was a tense and gripping historical fiction story that adds a different viewpoint to the already immense collecton of Nazi-Germany YA fiction out there. But it does stand on its own and makes for an interesting read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a AMAZING but throughout it I was crying, not because the book was bad (cause it wasn't), but because it was the truth. This book was about WW2 and I finally realise how bad the War actaully was, this six year span of War even made the Germans flee. The way that the Nazi's treated the citizens was atrosious. Even though this book was sad please do not be put off by these comments this book is very unique, interesting and historical book!Liz
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A strong, yet still enjoyable, view of life inside Nazi Germany for those who didn't believe the party line. It is a little contrived in places - naturally all those who didn't completely agree were involved in sheltering Jews... - and the ending doesn't seem to quite fit somehow but overall I think it is a very worthwhile book.