As she grew older, the harsh reality of war - and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime - aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. This is a well-written book that accomplishes both of those aims.Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden - just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat - Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. Then, after the war, everyone had to deal with the aftermath of what happened.I think it's important for everyone to understand why stuff like Nazi Germany happened, and what it's like for a normal person to live under a tyrannical regime. After his death, her mother began to feel differently about the Nazi regime, but she never actively opposed it. In fact, I found myself thinking, with a bit of horror, "I might have voted for the guy too." I HATE IT when I find myself empathizing in that way it makes me feel very uncomfortable.Irmgard's father was drafted into the German Army and ultimately killed in France. And, after reading Hunt's description of the chaos and despair of the Weimar Republic, I didn't blame them a bit. And many times she saw him and his entourage driving past her house.Neither of Hunt's parents were fanatical Nazis by any means, but they both helped vote Hitler into power. She actually met him when she was three or so, and got photographed sitting on his lap. The memoir of a girl from a very ordinary German family who, as a child, grew up in a house quite near one of Hitler's residences in Germany. It is a provocative story of a family and a community in a period and location in history that, though it is fast becoming remote to us, has important resonance for our own time. On Hitler's Mountain is more than a memoir-it is a portrait of a nation that lost its moral compass. As the Nazi crimes began to be accounted for, many Germans tried to deny the truth of what had occurred Hunt, in contrast, was determined to know and face the facts of her country's criminal past. In May 1945, an eleven-year-old Hunt watched American troops occupy Hitler's mountain retreat, signaling the end of the Nazi dictatorship and World War II. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war-and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime-aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden-just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat-Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood.
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