A review by alisse
Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939 by Bertil Scali, Edgar Feuchtwanger

5.0

I found this book fascinating. It’s written from the perspective of a young boy; one who spends his childhood looking out on Hitler’s Munich home. It reads like the diary entries of a child, with lots of recalled dialogue and conversations of the adults (his parents and other influential Germans and dignitaries) that surround him. It makes for a fast read in that sense. But the intimate look at who Hitler is and how he affects the Jewish family living literally under his nose is unlike anything I’ve read previously. And reading it now, reading how Hitler is like a spoiled child who throws tantrums—well, it’s insightful in how we view the past in light of the present.