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angeline03's review
2.0
I've given all the previous books a 5star reading but found this book so hard to get into. Johann is constantly whining, melancholy, and over all whimpy even at the end of the book in the epilogue. After reading books on the Nuemberg Trials and Nazi hunters with a simple accountant being charged as an accessory to murder when in his 90s, and knowing Johan was a witness to a massacre, I felt less pity for him than I did the real life elderly Nazi who was more innocent than this character. One of the recent nonfiction books I read recently mentioned a Russian saying they shot the Nazis they took back to Russia. I don't know. After reading books on this topic previously and enduring this character's whining, whimpering and tears, I was so glad the book was finished. I'm only giving it a 2 star rating because I learned some facts about Russia and communism I haven't known before. I wanted to stop reading the book early to be honest cus I was so turned off the main character. I honestly don't see a different between the Russian POW camps and the ones the Germans had. What did he have to whine about? The Nazis had done the same thing to their POWs. So irked by this book and his, "I watched but couldn't do anything." Lotte deserves a better man. Even the ending sucked. I'm not completely anti-Nazi because I believe even Goring (I believe that was the elderly Nazi's name) was far more innocent than Johann. I liked the idea behind this book - the concept because I am torn up over it after reading the book, "The Nazi Next Door" but for me the character sucked. The author is great tho and I love her other books.