The book by Nicholas Stargardt, an Oxford professor and one of the most authoritative historians of Nazism, is a unique study that presents for the first time the social history of Nazi Germany through the eyes of children. This serious historical work is based on original documents - teenage diaries, school assignments, children's drawings from the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt and a German village in the Black Forest, letters from evacuation camps, correctional institutions, psychiatric asylums, letters to fathers at the front, and even memories of childhood games. Among the characters in the book are a Czech-Jewish boy from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, a German teenager from East Prussia, two Jewish girls from the Warsaw ghetto, a German schoolgirl from a socialist family in Berlin, two teenagers from the Hitler Youth, a Jewish boy from Lodz. Professor Stargardt claims that the memoirs about Nazi Germany, children were divided into two groups: those who perceived life in it as normal, and those for whom it caused horror. This is why the exact events they remember are of great importance. The author breaks down stereotypes of sacrifice and trauma to tell us compelling personal stories of the generation created by Hitler.