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Loading... Auslander (2009)by Paul Dowswell
None.  PotomacLibrary | May 21, 2012 |  Auslander 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. (  ) SharonLong | Nov 30, 2011 | When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He is Volksdeutscher: of German blood. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and acceptably proportioned head, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler-Jugend poster. Someone important will want to adopt Peter. They do. Professor Kaltenbach is very pleased to welcome such a fine Aryan specimen to his household. People will be envious. But Peter is not quite the specimen they think. He is forming his own ideas about what he is seeing, what he is told. Peter doesn't want to be a Nazi, and so he is going to take a very dangerous risk. The most dangerous risk he could possibly choose to take in Berlin in 1942. StEdwardsCollege | Dec 3, 2010 | An interesting read. It gave a good picture of what it was like to be a child in Nazi Germany and the shocking indoctrination of children, but to me the characters never really came alive as they do in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas for instance. It is a good read though and a look into history for teenagers studying the period. (  ) carolineroche | Sep 18, 2010 | This 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 ( )1  ecco-liz-1 | Jan 15, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
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