Friedrich
A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime in this tragic story of a Jewish boy in Germany during the 1930s. His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money. By contrast, in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed.
But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school. Then his mother died and his father was deported. The common factor? Friedrich was Jewish.
This book is one that shows in compelling fashion how sentiments in Germany gradually shifted toward hatred and persecution of the Jewish people. It demonstrates that the changes did not all occur at once. It shows why many Germans turned a blind-eye to the happenings around them and why the Jews were lulled into a sense that things couldn’t possibly get any worse… until it was too late.
- About the author: Hans Peter Richter was a German author. He was born in Cologne, Germany, went to school in Germany. He studied at the university of Hannover, and graduated in 1968. He also spent some of his life in the German army. Richter wrote many books for children and young adults
